Newsletter #95

Some novelists unpack a single day in their 300 pages, while others unfurl a quarter of a millennium. Gyasi, ambitiously, does the latter, tracing the parallel lineages begun by two West African half-... (Tom)

Raymie Clark's father has run away with the dental hygienist, leaving 10-year-old Raymie and her mother behind. The only way to bring him back, Raymie believes, is by winning the 1975 "Little Miss Cen... (Karlyn)

How obnoxious (and clichéd, with Bloomsday just past) to suggest Ulysses as your summer reading. (Hey, why don't you climb the Matterhorn while you're at it!) Well, I'll confess that I read it, years... (Tom)