Patrick Radden Keefe delivers a searing portrait of Irish women and men struggling to make sense of their past and their memories.

1999 was the year of incredible movies, both in terms of quality and quantity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s strength is in the way she captures the presidential scene with companionable prose that most professional historians are unable to capture.

Outrage is the order of the day, and we see evidence of this everywhere. But Rebecca Traister wants to point out the productive power of anger as well.

If there is a single artist working today who truly gets flesh, it is Jenny Saville.

In late fall we discussed Kate Bowler’s poignant memoir about being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. We followed that with one of three recent volumes of the collected short stories of Andre Dubus.