July 29, 2012
    Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of 'The Great Escape'

    By Susan Elizabeth Phillips

This week's reviews

CRY WOLF

Red Moon, Benjamin Percy
"A man boards an early-morning flight from San Francisco to Portland, Ore. Although dressed for business, in a charcoal suit and wingtips, he carries nothing in his briefcase ......more".
Reviewed by Justin Cronin
  • The Son

    LONE STAR

    Reviewed by Will Blythe

    Bad historical novels – which is to say, most historical novels – are bad in exactly the same way: stuffed with the usual rogues’ gallery of historically certified villains, they’re banal costume dramas, predestined in...more

  • The Why of Things

    THEY'VE COME UNDONE

    Reviewed by Helen Schulman

    It has been nine months since Joan Jacobs’s beloved 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, took her own life by driving onto the railroad tracks in front of an oncoming train. At home in Maryland, Joan, a novelist, feels “Sophie’s...more

  • Confessions of a Sociopath

    FEELINGS?

    Reviewed by Jon Ronson

    As a teenager, M. E. Thomas – a fittingly egotistic pseudonym – was “so uniquely accomplished, talented and charming that I was naturally included on everyone’s list of people to know.” She went to indie movies and...more

  • In the Body of the World

    THE CANCER MONOLOGUE

    Reviewed by Rosemary Bray Mcnatt

    Eve Ensler is an activist, playwright and author with a reputation as a fearless champion of women – attesting to their pain and their joys, but most of all celebrating their stories. Ensler’s signature play, “The Vagina...more

  • The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

    HORSEPLAY

    Reviewed by Alex Kuczynski

    The year is 1930 and the country has slid into the Great Depression. Fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell has been ejected from her family home in Florida for doing something very, very bad. Her punishment: to be remanded to the...more

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