Editorial reviews

About Welcome to the Slipstream

Readers undeterred by the narrative left turn will be enthralled by Burian’s eerie depictions of the Sedona community and left pondering the deep emotional complexities of parent-child relationships.

About The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Though it’s no comic classic, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is big, roomy and enjoyable. The historical scenes are refreshingly unembarrassed by their hey-nonny-nonnyisms.

About The Mentor

The Mentor is a rich, rewarding thriller that offers plenty of suspense and a few satirical laughs.

About Small Hours

Kitses is a deft writer, capable of contrasting the mixed social fortunes of a small decaying town with the thrumming pressures of a metropolitan workplace, and the complicated fortunes of individual souls – workers, partners, offspring.

About Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud is important in helping us identify underlying attitudes that are not always as obvious as one might think.

About The Chalk Artist: A Novel

The Chalk Artist is dedicated to Goodman's teachers — 20 of whom are listed by name — and on one level it is a lovely paean to teaching and the patience and passion required for reaching and awakening not always receptive minds.

About The Force

“The Force” recalls Sidney Lumet’s great New York police films (“Serpico,” “Prince of the City”) and makes their agonies almost quaint by comparison.

About The Essex Serpent

The Essex Serpent is a bit of a dense read. And yet, it's undeniably a page turner as well.

About Mormama

Mormama could have been fantastic and horrific, instead it was more of an entertaining oddity.

About Mormama

Mormama, like the house that is ostensibly its central concern, is less frightening than exhausting, more dust than dread.

About Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

So often Sedaris’s phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism.

About Our Dark Duet

Happily, the many ardent fans waiting for this volume probably won’t mind its snags, they’ll just delight in the feels.

About The Grim Sleeper

True-crime fans will greatly appreciate Pelisek’s detail and determination, but some will find the minutiae overwhelming.

About Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

In the vein of Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh — an eerily similar work about an eerily similar character with an eerily similar name — the book makes you question your worldview. If you strip away social norms, what ultimate truth lies beneath?

About Standard Deviation: A novel

Heiny’s characters – charming, flawed, relatable, tragic, hilarious – are faultlessly constructed, lingering long in the memory like family or friends.

About The Forgotten Girl

This is an offbeat, suspenseful meditation on memory and longing by a writer like no other.

About Endgame

Middling, professional-grade work for this long-running series, whose most notable feature is a broad hint in its closing pages that it may well be its nameless hero’s last case.

About So Much Blue

It's not surprising that So Much Blue is such a perfectly structured novel; Everett is an author who started his career off strong and just keeps getting better.

About Soleri

A pedestrian opening volume.

About You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

In “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Alexie lingers on insults to his body and mind that could have been avoided. He was sexually abused as a child, and mistreated in other ways.