News - Book Reviews

News - Book Reviews

HOLD STILL by Sally Mann
May 21, 2015

Sally Mann’s acclaimed memoir received a positive review in the Guardian. The review called the book “seductive” and says that “another surprise of this volume is learning what a good critical mind Mann has. Not all artists possess, as she does, the ability to articulate her vision in clear language.” Little Brown published the book on May 12, 2015.

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Elizabeth Adler
May 21, 2015

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Elizabeth Adler recently received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, which praised the novel as a “brilliantly executed and constantly surprising” thriller that might possibly be Elizabeth Adler’s “best book yet”. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER will be published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press on July 7, 2015.

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough
May 14, 2015

David McCullough’s new biography was reviewed in the May 10th edition of the New York Times Book review. The reviewer, Daniel Okrent says, “The Wright Brothers” is merely this: a story, well told, about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished….On its own terms, “The Wright Brothers” soars.” The author also appeared on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show. Simon and Schuster published the book on May 5, 2015.

HOLD STILL by Sally Mann
May 14, 2015

Sally Mann’s memoir received a positive review in May 10th's edition of The New York Times Book review. The reviewer, Francine Prose, calls it “wonderfully weird and vivid.” Sally Mann was also interviewed in May 14th’s New York Times and in a recent segment on NPRs Fresh Air. Little Brown published the book on May 12, 2015

BRIGHT LIGHTS, DARK NIGHTS by Stephen Emond
May 14, 2015

Kirkus has given BRIGHT LIGHTS, DARK NIGHTS a starred review, stating that “Most impressive in this emotionally charged novel is the way each of the characters is fully imagined; they emerge as complex individuals who are shaped by a variety of factors and are not portrayed as simple heroes or villains. Readers will be left with plenty on their minds and in their hearts.” Roaring Brook Press will publish the novel on August 11, 2015.

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough
May 8, 2015

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS received rave reviews in the New York Times & The Wall Street Journal. In the Times, Janet Maslin called it a “concise, exciting and fact-packed book” and the Wall Street Journal says “David McCullough has etched a brisk, admiring portrait of the modest, hardworking Ohioans who...solved the mystery of flight.” The author was also interviewed on Thursday, May 7th's edition of The Charlie Rose Show. Simon & Schuster published the book on May 5, 2015.

THE CHINA COLLECTORS by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
May 8, 2015

“THE CHINA COLLECTORS is a racy, panoramic read; a cultural adventure story with serious diplomatic implications.” Says The Economist.
Palgrave Macmillan published the hardcover March 10, 2015.

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
May 8, 2015

Maggie Nelson’s THE ARGONAUTS is a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and was reviewed by Jennifer Szalai for the newspaper. “So much writing about motherhood makes the world seem smaller after the child arrives, more circumscribed, as if in tacit fealty to the larger cultural assumptions about moms and domesticity; Nelson’s book does the opposite,” observes Szalai. Graywolf published the book on May 5, 2015.

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
May 1, 2015

Maggie Nelson’s THE ARGONAUTS is one of PW’s Best Summer Books and was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which called it a “brilliant and poetically associative search” and said, “She does not bend genre so much as she refuses to bend her writing to meet genre’s demands, and it is that unbendingness that makes her work so fresh, compelling, dark, and intimate.”

ONGOINGNESS by Sarah Manguso
April 30, 2015

Sarah Manguso’s ONGOINGNESS was reviewed in the National Post, which said, “What’s written hastily into a calendar or notebook is never the life itself, a point Sarah Manguso makes with grace and economy in her new book Ongoingness … [The book] achieves a grace no diary possibly could, because it is not a diary at all. The essay instead reflects on the intimacy of keeping abreast of one’s self.” Graywolf published the book on March 3, 2015.