Recent content from Katherine A. Powers
Review: 'Making the Carry,' by Timothy Cochrane
NONFICTION: This dual biography of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater is also a history of a time of great change in Minnesota.
Review: 'Olav Audunsson: Crossroads' by Sigrid Undset, translated by Tiina Nunnally
FICTION: In the third in the series, Olav Audunsson is tormented, miserable and grieving — until war begins.
Review: 'Trespasses,' by Louise Kennedy
FICTION: A Catholic teacher and Protestant barrister fall in love in 1970s Northern Ireland. This cannot end well.
Review: 'Foster,' by Claire Keegan
FICTION: An impoverished young girl is sent to live with relatives and begins to learn what love is.
Audiobooks: Titles for many tastes
A posthumous memoir by Michael K. Williams, a new recording of an 18th-century romance and a sweeping African novel.
Review: 'Bad Actors,' by Mick Herron
FICTION: The eighth novel in Mick Herron's entertaining Slough House series involves sleuths, Russians, lost souls and tyrants.
Review: 'Ancestor Trouble,' by Maud Newton
NONFICTION: In this entertaining and thought-provoking memoir, Maud Newton probes the relationship between ourselves and our ancestors — starting with her own.
Review: 'We Don't Know Ourselves,' by Fintan O'Toole
An Irish journalist plumbs the depths of modern Irish society, from its all-powerful priests to its corrupt politicians.
Review: 'Life Between the Tides,' by Adam Nicolson
A writer with endless curiosity constructs three tide pools and closely observes the creatures that inhabit them.
Review: 'Crown and Sceptre,' by Tracy Borman
A lively recounting of the British monarchy since William the Conquerer.
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: 'Small Things Like These,' by Claire Keegan
A father of daughters wrestles with what to do about abuses he discovers at a Magdalen laundry in 1950s Ireland.
Review: 'Galloway,' by Patrick Laurie
A love story to Galloway and its cattle — a quixotic tale of determination and wonder.
Review: 'Olav Audunssøn, II. Providence,' by Sigrid Undset; translated by Tiina Nunnally
The second in Sigrid Undset's 13th century series is steeped in darkness and murder.
Review: 'Better to Have Gone,' by Akash Kapur
NONFICTION: A fascinating memoir about a Utopian city in India — which proves less than ideal.
Review: 'Strange Flowers,' by Donal Ryan
FICTION: This poignant novel traces one unhappy family through three generations.
Review: 'Our Woman in Moscow,' by Beatriz Williams
FICTION: A thrilling novel of spying, duplicity and bad decisions during the heart of the Cold War.
Review: 'Blondes of Wisconsin,' by Anthony Bukoski
FICTION: Anthony Bukoski's stories are steeped in loneliness, hard living and a strong sense of place.
Review: 'The Secret History of Home Economics,' by Danielle Dreilinger
NONFICTION: What began as a way to systemize housekeeping became a means of molding the perfect white wife.
Review: 'Floating in a Most Peculiar Way,' by Louis Chude-Sokei
NONFICTION: A Boston academic — and a refugee from Biafra — examines his own life to understand what it means in America to be from Africa.
Review: 'The Doctors Blackwell,' by Janice P. Nimura
NONFICTION: A dual biography of the Blackwell sisters, the first American women doctors — but no friend to their sex.
Review: 'Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World,' by Andrea Pitzer
NONFICTION: On their third attempt to find a northern passage to China, a group of 16th-century explorers found themselves trapped in a death grip of ice.
