The Only Story by Julian Barnes

Fiction Writers Review, April 2018
Suffering is, after all, the Latin root for passion.

Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander

Fiction Writers Review, December 2017
This book is itself in disguise, allegory camouflaged as page-turner, parable gone under-cover as spy story.

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2017
Read this one as children do: with eyes and heart open, giving in, ready to be swept away.

Larkinland by Jonathan Tulloch

The Fiction Writers Review, October 2017
We would all be singing different songs, telling different stories, if we belonged somewhere else.

There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon

The Fiction Writers Review, September 2017
…fingerprints endure, and Gordon’s mark these new pages.