James McBride featured in NPR's "5 Books to Look Forward to This Summer"

"You may know the story of John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harper's Ferry, but author James McBride's retelling of the events leading up to it is so imaginative, you'll race to the finish." Read the rest of the review here.

The New Yorker is "grateful" for Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad

"In addition to enjoying the company of a fellow language nerd on the bus... I found much to be grateful for in the Yagoda." To read more, click here.

Ben Yagoda's How To Not Write Bad on Beth Kephart Books blog!

"[How to Not Write Bad] is a book that asks us to be mindful, to look back over own shoulders at the language trail we leave, to be our own best copy editors, to read, to look things up." To read more, click here.

Slate raves about Margaret Talbot's The Entertainer

“Margaret Talbot’s wry, wonderful new book . . . That Talbot is a writer gifted enough to evoke not just images but their attendant music through her words will come as no surprise to anyone who’s read her in The New Yorker or elsewhere. One of the things The Entertainer makes abundantly clear, though, is that she comes by her aesthetic sense naturally. . . . Talbot has woven a tale as romantic and vivid as any film could hope to be, while still seeing every bit of it plain. She is as clear-eyed about her father as she is about history—no easy feat. . . . [Lyle] never had even a starring role as dazzling as the one his youngest child, with history as her guide, has now written for him.” Read more here.

The Los Angeles Times on Khaled Hosseini's "radiant" novel And the Mountains Echoed

"Beautifully written, masterfully crafted... And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love... To underscore love's centrality and contingency, Khaled Hosseini closes with an image drawn from a dream: a snapshot of bygone happiness all the more precious in retrospect because we know how fragile it is." To read the full review, click here.

People joins the chorus of raves for And the Mountains Echoed with a 4 star review

“The Kite Runner author’s latest is a moving saga about sacrifice, betrayal, and the power of family. . . . More expansive than The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the novel spans three generations and includes overlapping tales of expatriates and aid workers, parents and children, doctors and drug lords. Hosseini shows how easy it is for people to brutalize or abandon those they should protect. But his ultimate achievement is demonstrating the power and persistence of family.”—People (4 stars)

Entertainment Weekly gives a rave “A” review to Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed

“[W]ith his third and most ambitious novel yet, Hosseini makes it clear that he's not ready to rest on his Big Name…. While it hits all the Hosseini sweet spots — nostalgia, devastating details, triumph over the odds — And the Mountains Echoed covers more ground, both geographically and emotionally, than his previous works. It's not until Hosseini makes the novel small again, for the poignant conclusion, that you fully appreciate what he's accomplished.”  To Read More…