Hamilton Cain

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hamilton Cain

Rare's the author who invents her own literary language, but Jo Harkin has accomplished just that. Her dazzling, jocular novel "The Pretender" recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural village to a claim, as Edward Plantagenet, on the English monarchy. Never has a peasant risen so far, so fast.

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Hamilton Cain

A title can speak volumes. Yale historian Greg Grandin's panoramic, gorgeously crafted "America, América" announces its thesis in a repetition of a single word, with one subtle difference (check out the second "e"). That accent alludes to the fusion of capital and religion as European empires staked their flags in the New World, Indigenous peoples be damned. The author delves deep into our hemisphere's primary colonial tension: Spain vs.

4 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Hamilton Cain

To enter a Katie Kitamura book is to get lost in an ice palace. We marvel at its crystalline mazes, chills tingling our spines, wisps of breath twirling from the page. Nobody writes like her, those lissome lines and abundance of commas. She's one of the few who can pull off tell-don't-show. "Audition," her new mousetrap of a novel, raises the curtain on a Manhattan family in crisis and the ways fiction betrays our trust.

4 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Hamilton Cain

To enter a Katie Kitamura book is to get lost in an ice palace. We marvel at its crystalline mazes, chills tingling our spines, wisps of breath twirling from the page. Nobody writes like her, those lissome lines and abundance of commas. She’s one of the few who can pull off tell-don’t-show. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.

4 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hamilton Cain

To enter a Katie Kitamura book is to get lost in an ice palace. We marvel at its crystalline mazes, chills tingling our spines, wisps of breath twirling from the page. Nobody writes like her, those lissome lines and abundance of commas. She's one of the few who can pull off tell-don't-show. "Audition," her new mousetrap of a novel, raises the curtain on a Manhattan family in crisis and the ways fiction betrays our trust.