Claude Peck
Former Senior Metro Editor
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Review: A ‘Bad Bad Girl’ writes about her (worse) mom
Fiction: This moving immigrant saga zeros in on a daughter and her difficult mother.
October 13, 2025
Review: ‘A Burning’ followup ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ is a ‘classic’
Fiction: A family prepares to leave India against a cascade of obstacles.
October 7, 2025
Review: It’s no fun being a ‘Middle Spoon,’ or reading about it
Fiction: An experiment in polyamory proves poly-problematic.
September 4, 2025
Review: A city mouse from Kuala Lumpur falls for a country mouse in ‘The South’
Fiction: A failing farm in Malaysia pulls a city boy and his family in new directions.
May 19, 2025
‘The Human Scale’ explores life between the bombs in the Middle East
Fiction: A slain Israeli cop sparks a violent chain reaction in the ancient city of Hebron.
March 3, 2025
Review: The Troubles and the mob bring back a favorite detective in ’Hang On St. Christopher'
Fiction: Irish detective Sean Duffy, once more out of retirement…
February 25, 2025
Geraldine Brooks remembers her husband (and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner) in ‘Memorial Days’
Nonfiction: A celebrated novelist confronts the sudden loss of her spouse.
January 27, 2025
Comic novel shows how ‘There’s a body in my bed’ turns into a ticket for success
Fiction: In a YA writer’s debut novel for adults, so much depends on a grim morning after.
November 25, 2024
Kevin Barry will blow you away with Montana-set ‘The Heart in Winter’
FICTION: The Irish writer’s first novel set in America is a lyric heartbreaker.
July 3, 2024
You’ll be a fan of the hero of ‘Blessings,’ a young gay Nigerian who’s up against a lot
FICTION: The story of his coming of age makes for a memorable debut by a Nigerian writer.
June 20, 2024
When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in ‘The Alternatives’
FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
April 10, 2024
In novel, ‘The American Daughters’ are Black women, fighting to end slavery
FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
February 20, 2024
