The People in the Trees

by | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews

Now in paperback (and PEN Award-nominated): Hanya Yanagihara’s voyage into the forests of Micronesia unearths a tribe of immortals, whose fountain of youth is shipped to America with deadly, fantastical results. A tale of magic, culture clash, and...

The Zhivago Affair

by | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews

When Boris Pasternak published his famed novel Doctor Zhivago, it was banned in his native Soviet Union and made the Pasternak family into targeted enemies of the KGB. Peter Finn and Petra Couvee’s cat-and-mouse Cold War history carries the volatile suspense of...

Some Desperate Glory

by | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews

Max Egremont’s explosive history of “The World War I the Poets Knew” finds the likes of writer-soldiers Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, and Siegfried Sassoon on the frontlines, in the hopes of understanding how the battlefield sacrifices they made...