Category: Reading Journal

The River by Peter Heller is a novel set in the wilds of Canada. I’m not sure why I read this, because I did…

The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney was my book club’s selection for…

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy was my April book club selection. I found it fascinating. From the…

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow was my book club’s selection for February. The book is remarkable on several levels. While…

Silverview by John LeCarre is another—the last, apparently—spy novel from the master of the genre. Completed by his son and published after his death,…

That’s a wrap on my reading journal for this year. I’ve logged only 60 books this year, fewer than any year in recent memory….

America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien is unlike anything else I’ve read by this master. Satire in the style of Pynchon, the novel is about…

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck was recommended to me in preparation for my upcoming trip to Berlin. The novel, translated from German by…

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami is a novel (and finalist for the 2019 National Book Award) about Nora, the daughter of Moroccan immigrants….