The majority of these reviews appeared originally in the Minnesota Star Tribune, which allows a limited number of “free reads” but then asks for a subscription. There are a few longer pieces that appeared in Rain Taxi Review of Books and those do not have a paywall. A star next to a review means that I really liked the book.
*Review: ‘Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems’ by James Schuyler (Rain Taxi)
Review: ‘The Sparsholt Affair’ by Alan Hollinghurst
*Review: ‘A Miracle for Breakfast: Elizabeth Bishop’ by Megan Marshall
Review: ‘Reporter: A Memoir,’ by Seymour Hersh
*Review: ‘You Say No To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn’ by Wendy Lesser
Review: ‘House of Names’ by Colm Toibin
Review: ‘Some Hell’ by Patrick Nathan
Review: ‘Logical Family’ by Armistead Maupin
Review: ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ by Colm Toibin
Interview: John Ashbery on translating Rimbaud (Rain Taxi)
Review: ‘Breaking News’ by Alan Rusbridger
Review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith
Review: ‘Everything In Its Place’ by Oliver Sacks
Review: ‘Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee’ by Casey Cep
Review: ‘The Scientist and the Spy’ by Mara Hvistendahl
Review: ‘Girl’ by Edna O’Brien
Review: ‘Memorial’ by Bryan Washington
Review: ‘The Sun Collective” by Charles Baxter
Review: ‘The Prophets’ by Robert Jones, Jr.
Review: ‘Antiquities’ by Cynthia Ozick
Review: ‘Crossroads’ by Jonathan Franzen
Review: ‘The Fortune Men’ by Nadifa Mohamed
Review: ‘A Previous Life’ by Edmund White
*Review: ‘Trust’ by Hernan Diaz
Review: ‘Diary of a Misfit’ by Casey Parks
*Review: ‘The Lost Wife’ by Susannah Moore
Review: ‘The Late Americans’ by Brandon Taylor (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘Swim Home to the Vanished’ by Brendan Shay Basham (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘Learned By Heart’ by Emma Donaghue (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘A Nearby Country Called Love’ by Salar Abdoh (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘Nothing Ever Just Disappears’ by Diarmuid Hester (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘Last Acts’ by Alexander Sammartino (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘The American Daughters’ by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘The Alternatives’ by Caoilinn Hughes (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘Blessings’ by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘The Heart in Winter’ by Kevin Barry (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘I Think I’m In Trouble’ by Daniel Aleman (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘Memorial Days’ by Geraldine Brooks (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘Hang on St. Christopher’ by Adrian McKinty (Star Tribune)
*Review: ‘The Human Scale’ by Lawrence Wright (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘The South’ by Tash Aw (Star Tribune)
Review: ‘Middle Spoon’ by Alejandro Varela (Star Tribune)
*Essay on poet James Schuyler and the 2025 biography “A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler” by Nathan Kernan. Includes two audio links to Schuyler reading (Rain Taxi)
*Review ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ by Megha Majumdar (Star Tribune)
Review ‘Bad Bad Girl’ by Gish Jen (Star Tribune)
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