Cory Oldweiler

1 month ago | startribune.com | Cory Oldweiler

Readers of Lori Ostlund's new story collection "Are You Happy?" are likely to answer her titular question with a resounding yes after reading the book. But for the characters on the page, the answer is not so simple. These nine stories, including a 50-page novella, mostly feature protagonists with fulfilling personal or professional lives, and yet they are incomplete, bereft of some affection, appreciation, approval or answer that leaves them melancholy at best.

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Cory Oldweiler

One reason the mystery genre has remained popular is its infinite adaptability. Someone can get whacked anywhere and once you've got a corpse, the game's afoot!French writer Laurent Binet's "Perspective(s)," newly available in a brisk and breezy English translation by Sam Taylor, is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era's most famous and infamous personalities.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Cory Oldweiler

One reason the mystery genre has remained popular is its infinite adaptability. Someone can get whacked anywhere and once you've got a corpse, the game's afoot!French writer Laurent Binet's "Perspective(s)," newly available in a brisk and breezy English translation by Sam Taylor, is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era's most famous and infamous personalities.

2 months ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Cory Oldweiler |Colum McCann

While this century’s technological advancements have made communication easier, they’ve also made more people feel lonely, a trend well underway when the pandemic arrived to make everything worse. Yet five years later, the only genuine attempts to reckon with those “unprecedented times” have come from fiction.

2 months ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Cory Oldweiler

While this century's technological advancements have made communication easier, they've also made more people feel lonely, a trend well underway when the pandemic arrived to make everything worse. Yet five years later, the only genuine attempts to reckon with those "unprecedented times" have come from fiction.