Book Reviews

Jim Acosta comes across less like a reporter than a rival in his book — giving his side of the history of his interactions with the president and the legal battle to regain access to the White House.

Emiliano Monge's prose is brilliant, but that often obscures the moral questions around his protagonists, both human traffickers who transport their cargo while worrying about their relationship.

How far would you go to get away from your overbearing mother? In Jennifer Ryan's novel, a young woman braves the London Blitz to avoid her mom — who promptly hops a train and comes looking for her.

There have been an awful lot of South Asian adaptations of Pride and Prejudice recently, but Uzma Jalaluddin's tale of two Toronto Muslims — one conservative, one liberal — stands out beautifully.

Sarah Gailey's new novel centers on estranged sisters, one magically talented and one just a talented private investigator — who gets called in to solve a crime at her sister's school for magic.

Kristin Arnett's new novel follows a woman dealing with the suicide of her father, while running the taxidermy business she inherited from him, getting over an ex, and learning to live for herself.

Anthony Horowitz's new Inspector Hawthorne mystery is a sometimes too complex but ultimately fun tale set in and around London's literary scene, with plenty of axes to grind and nibs to sharpen.

Even in our current climate, it's sobering to consider how the profession of architecture treated modernist pioneer Eileen Gray. This graphic history is a thought-provoking, if incomplete, reflection.

Elvia Wilk's new novel follows a group of aimless young people in Berlin, working, going out, coming home — until something happens that brings about a cataclysm. But is the aimlessness intentional?

Newly reissued, the intellectual heft of Françoise Gilot's now classic memoir is in its art criticism, even as its emotional arc lies in Picasso and Gilot's unequal romance.