Book Reviews
CategoryAudiobook Review: Rosamund Pike’s “Sense and Sensibility” is Cool as a Cucumber
Between Jane Austen’s two best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice is having a moment while Sense and Sensibility is taking a breather. Lizz..
Audiobook Review: Star Wars “Thrawn: Alliances” Pairs a Blue Man with a Dark Lord
Older gen-x fans and writers of Star Wars novels like to wax nostalgic about the late ’70s, when books like Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and..
Book Review: Jason Fry Follows “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Through the Eyes of the Tico Sisters
Even after listening to Jason Fry’s Last Jedi novelization, I was a little fuzzy on the post-Empire politics of the Star Wars universe. Wh..
Audiobook Review: Maria Hummel’s “Still Lives” is, Indeed, Inert
Listening to Maria Hummel’s Still Lives shortly after Megan Miranda’s All the Missing Girls (2016), I realized I’d stumbled onto a contemp..
Audiobook Review: Han and Chewie’s summer adventures — for teens!
If Solo: A Star Wars Story is disappointing at the box office, it can’t be blamed on the crew at Penguin Random House Audio, who’ve been c..
Audiobook Review: Chris Nashawaty’s “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story”
Part of Chris Nashawaty’s challenge in Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story is justifying the new book’s subtitle. The m..
Review: Audible Turns “Alien: Sea of Sorrows” Into a Charmingly Grotesque Audio Drama
On the face of it, the 1979 science fiction classic Alien doesn’t seem like a strong prospect for sequels — at least, not interesting ones..
Audiobook Review: Daniel José Older’s “Last Shot” is an 11-Hour Trivia Challenge for Star Wars Superfans
Since clearing the Expanded Universe decks in 2014 and declaring that only movies were canon, the Disney-era Lucasfilm has been busily re-..
“Excellences & Perfections”: Iconic Instagram Performance Is Bound and Sold
Excellences & Perfections is a book you can hold in your hands. It chronicles an 2014 performance by Amalia Ulman, who’s been called “the ..
Audiobook Review: “The Last Jedi” Brings a Little Whiz-Bang to a Heavy Story
I’m just old enough to be an original Star Wars kid: a trio of bounty hunters from Empire were among my first toys, and I went to see Retu..
Audiobook Review: Amy Kaufman’s “Bachelor Nation” Is Here for the Right Reasons
America’s mixed feelings about The Bachelor franchise make for a relatively low-key crisis of conscience among the many we’re currently ma..
Audiobook Review: Laura Lippman’s “Sunburn” is Dazzlingly Bad
Walking out of a Naked Lunch screening, The Simpsons’ Nelson said, “I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.” There’s at ..