Alan Cheuse

Book Review: 'The Black Snow,' Paul Lynch

By Alan Cheuse • Jun 10, 2015

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These 'Voices In The Night' Whisper Of Wonders

By Alan Cheuse • Apr 14, 2015

Beautifully made fantastic tales such as Steven Millhauser writes don't begin from nothing. As in the tradition of Nikolai Gogol, Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (to name a few revered creators of fiction that carries us beyond the normal), most of them grow out of everyday incidents and lead us right up to the line between the ordinary and the magical. And sometimes they help us to cross over.

Book Review: Jo Nesbo, 'Blood On Snow'

By Alan Cheuse • Apr 6, 2015

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One of Scandinavia's leading crime novelists, Jo Nesbo, has a new book out about a contract killer who worries about money and his own shortcomings. It's called "Blood On Snow." Alan Cheuse has this review.

Book Review: 'The Evening Chorus'

By Alan Cheuse • Feb 16, 2015

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If you like dark and lyrical love stories, Alan Cheuse has a suggestion for you. It's a novel by the Canadian writer Helen Humphreys, set during World War II and its aftermath. It's called "The Evening Chorus."

Book Review: 'Sympathy For The Devil' By Michael Mewshaw

By Alan Cheuse • Jan 13, 2015

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Joyce Carol Oates Wades Into Troubled Waters With 'The Sacrifice'

By Alan Cheuse • Dec 26, 2014

With great energy and a cold eye for contemporary American race relations, here comes Joyce Carol Oates with a new novel that shows off her muck-raking credentials. The Sacrifice faces squarely an incident that took place in upstate New York nearly thirty years ago in which a young black girl named Tawana Brawley claimed that a group of white males, mostly police officers, kidnapped her and gang-raped her over a number of days.

'Lila' Sets The Stage For Marilynn Robinson's Earlier Works

By Alan Cheuse • Oct 20, 2014

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Martin Amis' 'Zone Of Interest' Is An Electrically Powerful Holocaust Novel

By Alan Cheuse • Sep 17, 2014

When I picked up Martin Amis' new novel, The Zone of Interest, it felt as though I had touched a third rail, so powerful and electric is the experience of reading it. After years of playing the snide card and giving his great store of talents to the business of giving other people the business, Amis has turned again to the matter of Nazi horrors (he tried to deal with it in a gimmicky way in his 1991 novel Time's Arrow), and the result is a book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.

Book Review: 'Angels Make Their Hope Here'

By Alan Cheuse • Jul 22, 2014

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McMurtry Takes Aim At A Legend In 'Last Kind Words Saloon'

By Alan Cheuse • May 27, 2014

In a prefatory note to The Last Kind Words Saloon, his first novel in five years, Western writer supreme Larry McMurtry states that he wants to create a "ballad in prose." And he borrows a line from great moviemaker John Ford: "When legend becomes fact, print the legend."

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