Books

Outsider Artist

James Lasdun packs a prodigious literary pedigree. The London-born author has published two acclaimed novels and three collections apiece of short stories and poems.

Book Review: Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men

By Pauline Uchmanowicz

Wry and episodic, Jaems Canon’s magical realist novel Tales from the Town of Widows opens in November of 1992, when Marxist guerillas come recruiting in tiny Mariquita, Colombia.

Book Review: Maude March on the Run!

By Susan Krawitz

In this sequel to her acclaimed The Misadventures of Maude March, part-time South Fallsburg resident Audrey Couloumbis keeps the dust churning, the bullets zipping, and the wry wit flying.

Book Review: Ask the Parrot

By Anne Pyburn

The first few lines of Ask the Parrot parachute the reader into the middle of a manhunt in the backwoods of New England—and into the life of an incredibly dangerous man.

Short Takes

By Nina Shengold