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TBTS Reviews: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
The Iraq War has its first great novel. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the debut novel by highly talented Texan Ben Fountain, spans one day in the lives of the eight men of Bravo Squad, survivors of...
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TBTS Reviews: The Coldest Night
With The Coldest Night, Robert Olmstead has reached the end of a long journey. The last book in a thematic trilogy begun with Coal Black Horse and Far Bright Star, The Coldest Night is the story of...
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TBTS Reviews: Beautiful Ruins
I first came across Jess Walter’s name at work. We had a cart of remainders, ninety-nine cents each, last-chance get-em-outta-here books, and I had just pushed it out of the back and onto the sales...
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TBTS Reviews: The Chemistry of Tears
Ever had the experience of passing some great landmark all the time without recognizing it for what it is? You might drive past some elegant building on a daily basis, never knowing what it is until...
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TBTS Reviews: In One Person and Tales of the City
When you pick up a John Irving novel, you know you’re going to see a few things. Wrestling. Bears. The picturesque Northeast. Irving’s last novel, Last Night in Twisted River, was described by one...
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TBTS Reviews: Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon has returned home. His last novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, took us to an alternate-history Alaska given to the survivors of the 1948 collapse of the newborn state of Israel....
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TBTS Reviews: Sutton
I’ve been waiting a good while to talk about this one, oh yes. I expect I’m not the only one. J. R. Moehringer, author of the bestselling memoir The Tender Bar, has turned his considerable talent...
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TBTS Reviews: In Between Days
I remember the last time Philip Roth accidentally ruined a book for me. The author had put out a well-received short story collection, one which I read and thoroughly enjoyed, which built in me an...
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A Kind of Madness: NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of year when a certain madness grips people. People stay up late at night, pounding at their keyboards in a fever, letting their imagination run wild, letting their fears get the best of...
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TBTS Reviews: A Million Heavens
A Million Heavens, John Brandon’s third novel, tells you the kind of places it plans to go as soon as you start reading. It begins with a somewhat magic wolf, full of that secret-wisdom-of-animals kind...
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