“Situations Matter offers a blend of weighty and whimsical insights that makes for a thought-provoking and entertaining read.” To read the full review, click here.
In a glowing review, The New York Times Book Review calls Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All of Us a "fantastical and ambitious first novel" and declares that "Ausubel’s novel is infused with faith in the power of storytelling."
“Rarely do books mainly about history make such entertaining reading…Kluth deserves every kudo for this book that shows his new Hannibal research is not beating a dead horse but rather a startlingly fresh outlook on an old mystery.” To read the full review by Patrick Hunt in Electrum Magazine, click here.
"Illuminating…Huang’s coming-of-age story eloquently describes his family coping with change and how, in a turbulent time, he made sense of the world." To read the full, starred review, click here.
"Other fiction writers have gotten this fresh with Anne Frank. But they don’t get much funnier.... He is an absurdist with a deep sense of gravitas. He brings to mind Woody Allen, Joseph Heller and — oxymoron here — a libido-free version of Philip Roth... It’s a tall order for Mr. Auslander to raise an essentially comic novel to this level of moral contemplation. Yet Hope: A Tragedy succeeds shockingly well." Read more...
"Fight any urge to dismiss Hannibal and Me as boys-only self help. True, the book comes complete with warriors, military strategies, elephants, golf, and a seductress, but this book is a serious and fascinating exploration of issues many of us grapple with on a daily basis. Highly recommended." To read the full review, click here.
Charlotte Silver talks to the Boston Globe about her mother's restaurant, Upstairs at the Pudding, and what it was like growing up in it's confines—the subject of her forthcoming memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat.
"Willfully outrageous, a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist's heart." Read more...
“Romanian Jews in 1939 reinvent their own reality in this inspiring novel about the power of community and imagination.”—O, the Oprah Magazine
“As graceful and emotionally true as Phillips’ debut—and, in its thoroughly researched reimagining of the American Southwest’s prehistoric Mimbres culture and its leap into supernatural territory without once losing its credibility or riveting story line, surpasses it. . . . Amid a sensually sketched setting of rock formations, mesquite and juniper, narrow canyons, and night skies, Ren and Silas work side by side and try to bridge the growing distance between them. As the natural and supernatural worlds coalesce, both recent and ancient history become more insistently present, yielding an original and strikingly beautiful ending.”—Kate Christensen, Elle
