Reviews & Guides

Once the toast of the New York intellectual scene, Dorothy Parker is remembered today primarily for a handful of witty epigrams and acerbic one-liners which have been quoted so frequently that they have lost mu... read full review

Once the toast of the New York intellectual scene, Dorothy Parker is remembered today primarily for a handful of witty epigrams and acerbic one-liners which have been quoted so frequently that they have lost mu... read full review

Styron’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece flits back and forth across time and space from war-torn Poland and the Nazi death camps to rural Virginia and the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, examining, through the li... read full review

Maggie is the daughter of erstwhile flower children who are committed to causes but not to people. She grows up to be a self-sufficient, emotionally alienated, feminist television journalist. Rory is the youn... read full review

Henning Mankell has written an exciting novel which is both a meticulous police procedural and a tense, believable political thriller. Written in 1994 and skillfully translated from the Swedish into punchy con... read full review