Category Archives: Best books

These two titles are also worth mentioning: The Hairdreser’s Son, Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, Archipelago Books: tension and mystery. The Six Loves of James, Gareth Russel, Atria Books (first published in the UK as Queen … Continue reading →

This my take away: The Split, Lucas Schaefer, Simon & Schuster. The South, Tash Aw, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Baldwin, Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dark Renaissance, Stephen Greenblatt, W. W. Norton & Company. What is queer food, John Birdsall, … Continue reading →

As every year at this time, the TLS asked its contributors what their favorite books of the past year were. Here are a few of the titles: Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Damrosch, Yale (William Boyd). The … Continue reading →