For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Samantha Ellis

From the March 2024 Issue

Getting over the Tumbleweed

Splinters: A Memoir

By Leslie Jamison

From the October 2022 Issue

Legend of the Unholy Drinker

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

By Keiron Pim

From the August 2022 Issue

Farewell to Wonderland

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By Sarah Polley

Managing Expectations

By Minnie Driver

From the February 2022 Issue

In the Blink of an Eye

Smile: The Story of a Face

By Sarah Ruhl

From the October 2016 Issue

Prospero Imprisoned

Hag-Seed

By Margaret Atwood

From the April 2016 Issue

All By Myself

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By Olivia Laing

From the October 2015 Issue

Squeezing the Scorpion

Charlotte Brontë: A Life

By Claire Harman

From the August 2015 Issue

All by Myself…

Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own

By Kate Bolick

From the July 2015 Issue

Problems of Living

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

By Alain Mabanckou (Translated by Helen Stevenson)

The Utopia Experiment

By Dylan Evans

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By Sy Montgomery

From the April 2015 Issue

Entertaining Eliot

Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance

By Patricia Duncker

From the March 2015 Issue

Writing Therapy

Late Fragments

By Kate Gross

Girl in the Dark

By Anna Lyndsey

From the March 2014 Issue

Friend of Dorothea

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot

By Rebecca Mead

From the November 2010 Issue

Guilt Edged

The Weekend

By Bernhard Schlink