September 20, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Matthew Tiffany reviews The Junior Officers’ Reading Club in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: It seems strange, given the omnipresence of technology and the Internet in our lives, that we have to
September 7, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
We’re playing catch up this week, just like you are on this first post-Labor-Day morning back at your desk. — A trio of “Freedom” reviews to kick off summer’s end
August 26, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Grace Talusan’s debut review in The Boston globe of Emily Fox Gordon’s “Book of Days: Personal Essays:” This new collection of her work over the intervening years is stunning, not
August 12, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Harvey Freedenberg reviews Bring On the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture, by Jim Collins, for Shelf Awareness: Countering with aggressive cheerfulness the view of those doomsayers
July 28, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Mary Ann Gwinn's Lit Life article in the Seattle Times looks at a local connection to the Google Books Project: Peter Leonard is a doctoral student in Scandinavian studies at
July 22, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Adam Kirsch in Tablet on The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson: Faith, it
July 15, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Ron Charles reviews What Is Left the Daughter, by Howard Norman: An award-winning translator who teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park, Norman offers a kind of
July 6, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Ron Charles reviews David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet in The Washington Post Book World: In the first part of the novel, Mitchell spins out this
June 29, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
NB: Please send your links (to reviews, interviews, essays) to Bethanne Patrick, thebookmaven at gmail dot com. At Chapter 16, Margaret Rankl interviews “Mr. Peanut” author Adam Ross: Personally,
June 21, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Thanks, everyone, for your patience over the last few weeks. We're definitely still running the roundup and I'm definitely still collecting links every week, so please keep sending them to