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3 weeks ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jane Flett |Alison Espach |Richard Wright
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Emma Pattee |Alison Espach |Richard Wright
Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
republic.com.ng | Richard Wright |Garth Greenwell |Novuyo Tshuma |Santiago Sánchez
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
republic.com.ng | Richard Wright |Garth Greenwell |Novuyo Tshuma |Santiago Sánchez
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
fivebooks.com | Don DeLillo |Thomas Pynchon |William T. Vollmann |Richard Wright
recommended by Bernard T. Joy An exploration of the history of the United States may require novels that are challenging to read but offer the reward of really making you think about a complex subject. Literary scholar Bernard T. Joy talks us through five novels that explore U.S. history, from colonial times to the end of the 20th century. You’ve chosen five novels about the history of the United States. Can you explain what you mean by that, and what kind of books you were looking for?
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Haslett |Kristin Hannah |Richard Wright
A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
supplychain-insights.media | Richard Wright |Manhattan Associates
With ecommerce projected to capture 41% of global retail sales by 2027, it might seem counterintuitive for retailers to continue investing in new and existing physical stores. Yet, retailers like Fujifilm, Sketchers, and are not only maintaining their brick-and-mortar presence but actively innovating with new store concepts to better serve modern shoppers and stand out in a competitive market.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Remy Ngamije |Liz Moore |Richard Wright
"Don't go into the woods" takes on unsettling new meaning in Moore's blend of domestic drama and crime novel. Many years after her older brother, Bear, went missing, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from the same sleepaway camp he did, leading to dark, bitter truths about her wealthy family. One morning in 1975 at Camp Emerson—an Adirondacks summer camp owned by her family—it's discovered that 13-year-old Barbara isn't in her bed.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Amanda Lee Koe |Liz Moore |Richard Wright
"Don't go into the woods" takes on unsettling new meaning in Moore's blend of domestic drama and crime novel. Many years after her older brother, Bear, went missing, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from the same sleepaway camp he did, leading to dark, bitter truths about her wealthy family. One morning in 1975 at Camp Emerson—an Adirondacks summer camp owned by her family—it's discovered that 13-year-old Barbara isn't in her bed.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jonathan Evison |Kristin Hannah |Richard Wright
A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.
