Say Nothing weaves the unsolved case of a disappeared Belfast mother into a history of the Troubles
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland introduces the mystery at its core in two key scenes: A 38-year-old widowed mother of…
Susan Choi sets her novel Trust Exercise at the intersection of fact and fiction
…their connection to Art.” Early in their freshman year, Sarah and David forge a manic bond that is more chemical than relational, and they spend the following summer furiously and…
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood mines the nuances of daily life in A Small Thing to Want
In A Small Thing to Want, a collection of short stories by Johnson City writer Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, the most vital moments are often the most private. Cawood’s stories occupy…
Alia Volz pays tribute to her mother’s enterprising marijuana brownie business in Home Baked
…Milk — exerted their influence in the city for years before their legacies exploded into the national zeitgeist. Most movingly, we feel Meridy and young Alia’s dismay and heartbreak as…
The characters of Katy Simpson Smith’s The Everlasting span the long, winding history of Rome
…as more than a colorful swirl of imagery. They provide a structural conceit that allows Smith to organize two millennia’s worth of material about Rome’s history and people. In “The…
Patti Smith chronicles her idiosyncratic path through the creative life in Year of the Monkey
…bearing witness to music’s alchemical power in a volatile world. Smith’s latest dispatch from her nomadic travels, Year of the Monkey, also reflects the surreal confusion of our fractured, threatening…
