Review: Still Here

  Synopsis: A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul". In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and...

Review: Welcome to the Show (A Mickey Tussler Novel)

  Synopsis: It’s 1950 and Mickey Tussler—the now-famous pitching prodigy with autism and a golden arm—is back for another baseball season in this third installment of Frank Nappi’s critically acclaimed Legend of Mickey Tussler series. Talk of Mickey’s legendary exploits on the field has grown since his improbable debut two years prior, as have the...