Recent content from Hamilton Cain
Looking at the historic bonds of animals and humans in 'Our Kindred Creatures'
NONFICTION: "Our Kindred Creatures" vividly re-creates the rise and spread of the ASPCA.
New book looks at the 'Native Nations' that called this land home before colonists arrived
NONFICTION: A single-volume history of Indigenous nations is both majestic in scope and intimate in tone.
Cheeky humor enlivens 'Wild Houses,' a tale of desperate Irish gangsters
FICTION: Colin Barrett's wondrous first novel delivers on the promise of his acclaimed short fiction.
'Until August' is the final novel from one of the all-time greats
FICTION: Gabriel García Márquez's final novella is short but as fully realized as his masterworks.
Before upcoming Walker exhibit, biography 'Radiant' shows Keith Haring was a charmer and tyrant
NONFICTION: Brad Gooch's biography illuminates an iconoclastic life devoted to art.
Review: 'Lost & Found,' by Kathryn Schulz
A sublime, erudite memoir explores the connection between grief and love.
Review: 'The Dawn of Everything,' by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"The Dawn of Everything" is a vibrant if uneven survey of inequity through the ages.
Review: 'Magritte: A Life,' by Alex Danchev
A superb new biography illuminates the life and art of a leading Surrealist.
50+ essential books for your winter reading and holiday shopping lists
Page-turners that will make you laugh, cry, reflect and escape when the weather outside is frightening.
Review: 'Liberty Is Sweet,' by Woody Holton
A prize-winning historian broadens and enriches our understanding of the American Revolution.
Review: 'Our Country Friends,' by Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart's rollicking, playful new novel skewers the mores of cultural elites during a pandemic shutdown.
Review: 'Harlem Shuffle,' by Colson Whitehead
FICTION: Colson Whitehead's enthralling, evocative new novel transforms a petty heist into a resonant exploration of race and class.
Review: 'Late City,' by Robert Olen Butler
FICTION: A Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a robust if uneven novel that encapsulates the American Century.
Review: 'Skinship,' by Yoon Choi
FICTION: A debut collection centered on myriad facets of the Korean-American experience.
Review: 'The Plague Year,' by Lawrence Wright
NONFICTION: A master of literary journalism explores the COVID-19 pandemic in revelatory detail.
Review: 'Finding the Mother Tree,' by Suzanne Simard
NONFICTION: "Finding the Mother Tree" illuminates the career of one of our most brilliant ecologists.
Review: 'The Five Wounds,' by Kirstin Valdez Quade
FICTION: This vibrant novel showcases one man's road to redemption.
Review: "Foregone," by Russell Banks
FICTION: Russell Banks' new novel explores morality and mortality.
Review: 'The Black Church,' by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
NONFICTION: A companion book to the PBS series "The Black Church" chronicles the intricate history of an institution at the heart of the American Experiment.
