Julian Barnes' The Noise of Time is a fictionalized biography of Dmitri Shostakovitch written in a very close third person. Not...

In 1961, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers returned to Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to record what would be the last...

I can think of few books that have stayed with me the way Lisa Halliday's "Asymmetry" has. A 2018 novel in three parts, it begins with...

I Am the Clay seems on the surface to be something different from Potok, who we know from books such as My Name is Asher Lev and The...