LOUISE ERDRICH The Night Watchman. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey
A look back at the novel that won Louise Erdrich, most recently author of The Sentence, the Pulitzer Prize. Towards the end of Louise Erdrich’s excellent novel...
Read MoreJHUMPA LAHIRI Whereabouts. Reviewed by Ann Skea
Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri explores solitude and life choices in Whereabouts, her first novel since The Lowland in 2013. This is not a happy book, nor is it a...
Read MoreVIET THANH NGUYEN The Sympathizer. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel The Sympathizer shows the Vietnam war from a Vietnamese perspective, critiquing Hollywood’s renderings of the...
Read MoreADAM JOHNSON Fortune Smiles. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
This is a collection to return to, to fully explore the ideas and themes and revel in the boldness of the writing. When I read The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson...
Read MoreJANE SMILEY Some Luck. Reviewed by Robyne Young
Smiley returns to Iowa, the setting of her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres, in this first book of an epic new trilogy. It was chance that took the...
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