Book Reviews
The Translation of Dr. Apelles
by David Treuer
Vintage, 2008. 336pp.
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce
If you can’t find anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all—unless you’re responding to a writer, in which case you have a number of viable euphemisms to choose from: “interesting,” “well-crafted,” “clever.” The latter is a standard response to the experimental writer, which suggests, in rough translation, “It’s amazing how much you squeezed out of a premise completely lacking in plot or interesting characters.”...
My Life in France
by Julia Child, with Alex Prud’homme
Anchor Books, 2007. 336pp.
Reviewed by Jennifer Leblanc
Without her we wouldn’t have Rachel Ray, Nigella Lawson, or the Jamie Oliver. We wouldn’t have the French cooking bible, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Without her, Bon Appetite would not be in the pop culture lexicon. My Life in France tells the story of how the inspiration epicure, Julia Child, was born...
The Understory
by Pamela Erens
Ironweed Press, 2007. 143pp,
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce
The Heartless Stone
by Tom Zoellner
Picador, 2007. 352pp,
Reviewed by Alicita Rodriguez
Matrimony
by Joshua Henkin
Pantheon Books, 2007. 293pp,
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn
by Liz Moore
Broadway Books, 2007. 305pp,
Reviewed by Maggie Hill
Old Heart: Poems
by Stanley Plumly
W.W. Norton, 2007. 96pp,
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson
Still to Mow
by Maxine Kumin
W.W. Norton, 2007. 95pp.
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson