Book Reviews

Jacqueline Turner’s new poetry collection, The Ends of the Earth, is a delicious surprise.
An apt title might well have been The World According to Paul Watson.
There’s something disturbingly calculated about Child of Vengeance.
These eight narratives depict the emotional contrasts that constitutes life in progress.
Now, by the light of the strange glowing ball in the sky that’s emerged from the clouds, it’s time to have a look at some of the more intriguing titles marking the turn of the season.
Patience. That’s the most important thing readers can bring to first-time novelist Taiye Selasi’s quite wonderful Ghana Must Go.
This autobiography explores private anguish and public apathy, the primacy of storytelling, and memory’s power.
Unfolding on this dystopian stage, Manil Suri’s The City of Devi is an often trenchant, sometimes tender story.
Plenty of praise has already been heaped upon the latest story collection by Syracuse University professor and MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow George Saunders.