Fuse Book Review: Martin Cruz Smith’s “Tatiana”— More than a Thriller?
After 2010's too spare "Three Stations," fans old and new will find Martin Cruz Smith back in full form with "Tatiana," creating a taut, subtle, often darkly funny and even moving tale.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Heat”— An Imaginatively Imaginary Interview with Actress...
"Heat" is a fictional interview in which Dickinson asks uncomfortably intimate questions and then imagines the answers Seberg might have given.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The...
In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius' painting "The Goldfinch" and the fleeting nature of, well, everything comes together for a brief and shining moment.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: Richard Powers’s Urgent “Orfeo”— Can Art Save Us?
As with any Richard Powers novel, when you finish "Orfeo" you will have no doubt you are alive, awake, and likely ready to start over at page one.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Elixir of Immortality”— A Fabulous Ride Through...
Love stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry - it's all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years of European...
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Devil I Know”— A Brilliant Satire of Ireland’s Boom...
Claire Kilroy's dark and fantastical comedy "The Devil I Know" nails the greed and rampaging ambition of the corrupt avatars of "the new Ireland" -- developers, bankers, and government pooh-bahs.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “An Unnecessary Woman”— A Memorable Story of Redemption
When the septuagenarian protagonist of this novel finally gets out of her claustrophobic apartment, everything changes.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Marrying of Chani Kaufman”— The World of the...
Beneath the humor and the warmth and the charm of this novel, author Eve Harris bears witness to an existence far more complex and troubled than Ultra-Orthodox Jews might like to admit.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Poets’ Wives”— What Does it Mean to be Married to a Poet?
Taken as a whole, "The Poets' Wives" is a fascinating, brave novel whose love of poetry breathes through all three sections.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Paying Guests”— Sarah Waters Serves Up More of...
We all have ghosts, the author seems to say. And in a larger sense, Sarah Waters’s ghosts are those of country and culture, her books a catalogue of the social changes shaking England from the...
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Missing Reels”— Breezy Film Fiction
Ace film blogger Farran Smith Nehme's first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “We All Looked Up”— A Book and Album Where Adolescence...
It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: A Classic of Cinematic Fiction —“The Diver’s Clothes Lie...
What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Look Who’s Back”— The Second Coming
The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Adrift” in a Memorably Neo-Beat World
The protagonist's version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
View ArticleFuse Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art
"When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres."
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Winter”— A Luminous Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
This novel about Thomas Hardy becomes not only the story of an odd triangle, but also a meditation on the nature of art.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “And Again”— Biological Engineering, Predictable Construction
What’s most interesting about And Again is precisely what gets the least narrative attention.
View ArticleFuse Book Interview: Douglas Kennedy on “The Blue Hour”
"Even in a terrain as epic and mythic and exotic as the Sahara, you cannot run away from the weight of your past."
View ArticleFuse Book Review: Don DeLillo’s “Zero K”— The Wages of Cheating Death
Zero K will prove refreshing to Don DeLillo’s readers in that it’s a novel of faith -- a concept that he’s always been skeptical of.
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