"The Tilted World" (William Morrow), by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly   "The Tilted World" is a captivating Deep South drama that unfolds in the spring of 1927 as...

"Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America" (Viking), by Dan Balz   Heading into the 2012 presidential election season, President Barack Obama had...

"One Summer: America, 1927" (Doubleday), by Bill Bryson   In retrospect, most summers seem pretty much alike: vacations in the country, lazy days at the beach and less tedious...

"Doctor Sleep" (Scribner), by Stephen King.   Consider this the sequel you never knew you were waiting for, but will be very glad it arrived.   Thirty-six years after...

"The Lowland: A Novel" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Jhumpa Lahiri   If you're one of Jhumpa Lahiri's many adoring fans, someone who is always impatient for her next book, I'm...

"Jim Henson: The Biography" (Ballantine Books), by Brian Jay Jones.   If ever you had a single question about the felt magic Jim Henson managed to create, chances are Brian Jay...

"The Big Crowd" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Kevin Baker.   Kevin Baker keeps on finding new veins to mine for New York City's history. Already known for his "City of...

"Men We Reaped: a Memoir" (Bloomsbury USA), by Jesmyn Ward   The last chapter of Jesmyn Ward's memoir, "Men We Reaped," begins with a litany of statistics "about...

"Goat Mountain" (Harper), by David Vann   Gun owners like to say they teach their children to never point a loaded weapon at another person. But what if a father let his...

My first translation in the series Kollezzjoni Traduzzjonijiet Letterarji is that of Balzac’s long short story La maison du chat qui pelote/Id-dar tal-qattus bir-rakketta f’idu. This...