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Literature

Book review: Camilla Läckberg's 'The Golden Cage' is a psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things

By Maureen Corrigan The Washington Post
Jul 09, 2020 6:00 am - “The Golden Cage” by Camilla Läckberg, translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith (Knopf) Camilla Läckberg has been dubbed “the Swedish Agatha Christie” f...
Book review: 'Conspiracy' tells of gold rush and Gilded Age greed

By Michael Hill Associated Press
Jul 08, 2020 6:00 am - “A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age” by Paul Starobin (Public Affairs) Rules, laws and honesty meant little to Alexander ...
Review: 'Conspiracy' tells of gold rush and Gilded Age greed

By MICHAEL HILL
Jul 07, 2020 7:00 am - 'œA Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age,'ť by Paul Starobin (Public Affairs) Rules, laws and honesty meant little to Alexander McKenzie, a G...
Book review: Kevin Kwan moves on with 'Sex and Vanity,' but the characters are still crazy rich

By Angela Haupt The Washington Post
Jul 07, 2020 6:00 am - "Sex and Vanity" by Kevin Kwan (Doubleday) The wedding of the summer is still on - and you'd have to be crazy rich not to squeal in vicarious wonder at i...
New book by Marmion monk comes out July 15

Submitted by Marmion Abbey
Jul 06, 2020 11:00 pm - Father Joel Rippinger's recent sabbatical has brought to fruition a new book, "Struggle and Ascent: The History of Mount Angel Abbey," published by Liturgical Press, Col...
Book review: At 'Action Park,' danger was the main attraction

By Rachel Rosenblit The Washington Post
Jul 06, 2020 6:00 am - “Action Park,” by Andy Mulvihill with Jake Rossen (Penguin) An early survey of visitors to Action Park, a Vernon, N.J., theme park that opened in 1978 and operated for n...
Book review: 'In Praise of Paths' reminds us of the incredible power of the simple outdoor walk

By Ilana Masad The Washington Post
Jul 05, 2020 7:15 am - "In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature" by Torbjørn Ekelund, translated by Becky L. Crook (Greystone) When I was 13, during a summer visit to my grand...
Book review: Paul Doiron cranks up a suspenseful, fast-paced plot

By Bruce DeSilva Associated Press
Jul 04, 2020 7:15 am - “One Last Lie,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) Fifteen years ago, a young Maine game warden went undercover to investigate a poaching ring in Maine's north woods and was...
Book review: Lose yourself in the places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien

By Elizabeth Hand The Washington Post
Jul 04, 2020 7:15 am - "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The places that inspired Middle-Earth" by John Garth (Princeton University Press) After months of lockdown, political unrest and the ...
In Sophie Mackintosh's dystopian 'Blue Ticket,' a woman's fate is determined by lottery

By Wendy Smith The Washington Post
Jul 02, 2020 6:00 am - "Blue Ticket," by Sophie Mackintosh A controlling father imposed his warped definition of female nature on his daughters in Sophie Mackintosh's first book, "The Wat...

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