Recent content from Kathleen Rooney
Review: 'Marshmallow Clouds,' by Connie Wanek and Ted Kooser
POETRY: A book to ignite a love of poetry and nature in young readers.
Review: 'The Presence of Absence,' by Simon Van Booy
FICTION: Simon Van Booy uses a simple story about an author telling a story to explore the anything-but-simple process of telling a story.
Review: 'Compass,' by Murray Lee
FICTION: Murray Lee draws on his experiences in the Arctic to tell a critically comedic story about a bumbling would-be adventurer trapped on a drifting ice floe.
Review: 'A Tale of Five Cities and Other Memoirs,' by Joyce Elbert
NONFICTION: The unjustly neglected Joyce Elbert reminiscences about being a woman novelist in a man's world.
Review: 'Farewell Transmission,' by Will McGrath
NONFICTION: In "Farewell Transmission," Will McGrath offers globetrotting essays on obscure lives and furtive vocations, alerting readers to secrets without and within.
Review: 'Violets,' by Kyung-sook Shin
FICTION: The deceptively quiet and devastating story of a lonely young woman within a sexist and shifting South Korean society.
Review: 'Splendid Anatomies,' by Allison Wyss
FICTION: Allison Wyss uses surreal humor, vulnerability and sincerity to explore the wonder and absurdity of having a body.
Review: 'Marshmallow Clouds,' by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek
Two prominent American poets offer poems to ignite a love of both poetry and nature in the imaginations of young readers.
Review: 'City of Incurable Women,' by Maud Casey
Maud Casey fuses fact and fiction to give unforgettable voices to 19th-century female psychiatric patients.
Review: 'Very Cold People,' by Sarah Manguso
Nonfiction writer Sarah Manguso's debut novel, "Very Cold People," builds a chilly New England coming-of-age story out of vignettes.
Debut novel by Minnesota writer Sequoia Nagamatsu offers wonder and hope in the face of grief
Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut novel, "How High We Go in the Dark," blends speculative and literary fiction to offer a bleak yet hopeful glimpse of humanity's potential futures.
Review: 'Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell,' by Steve Paul
Steve Paul's biography of Evan S. Connell parses a brilliant and hard-to-pin-down iconoclast.
Review: 'Somebody Loves You,' by Mona Arshi
Sad yet wryly funny, poet Mona Arshi's debut novel vividly depicts the troubled coming-of-age of a British Indian girl.
Review: 'Gordo: Stories,' by Jaime Cortez
FICTION: Jaime Cortez's hilarious short story collection gives incisive glimpses of blue-collar Mexican American life.
Review: 'Ivory Shoals,' by John Brandon
FICTION: Brimming with peril and natural splendor, "Ivory Shoals" takes readers on an old-fashioned adventure.
Review: 'The Youngest Boy,' by Jim Heynen
FICTION: Jim Heynen's collection of short-short stories offers flashes of the beauty and solitude of a rural childhood.
Review: 'The Seed Keeper,' by Diane Wilson
FICTION: "The Seed Keeper" traverses the decades to tell the story of a Dakota family confronting oppression and preserving their heritage.
Review: 'What's Mine and Yours,' by Naima Coster
FICTION: An openhanded, character-driven consideration of family ties and structural racism.
Review: 'Flight of the Diamond Smugglers,' by Matthew Gavin Frank
NONFICTION: Personal tragedy mixes with environmental and economic insight on South African trade.
Review: 'Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light,' by Liz Heinecke
NONFICTION: An unlikely and delightful friendship sprang up between two of Belle Époque Paris' most revolutionary women.
Review: 'Bina: A Novel in Warnings,' by Anakana Schofield
FICTION: A bleakly comic feminist outcry explores the absurdity of the expectations placed on women.
Review: 'W-3: A Memoir,' by Bette Howland
NONFICTION: Bette Howland's memoir "W-3" presents a clear-eyed chronicle of her breakdown.
