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Sexism and Science: The Woman with the CureReview: The Woman with the Cure , by Lynn Cullen Berkley, 2023. 402 pp. $17 In 1941, Dorothy Horstmann is finishing her medical residency at...
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Form Versus Content: The Porcelain MoonReview: The Porcelain Moon , by Janie Chang Morrow, 2023. 334 pp. $30 As the author says in her afterword, nearly 150,000 Chinese signed...
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Stage Mama: On the Roof TopReview: On the Roof Top , by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton HarperCollins, 2022. 290 pp. $29 San Francisco, 1953. Vivian Jones, who fled Louisiana...
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Lying About a Death: Florence Adler Swims ForeverReview: Florence Adler Swims Forever , by Rachel Beanland S&S, 2020. 304 pp. $26 In June 1934, twenty-year-old Florence Adler of Atlantic...
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Murder in the Mandate: The Red BalconyReview: The Red Balcony , by Jonathan Wilson Schocken, 2023. 274 pp. $27 In March 1933, a Jewish resident of Palestine is murdered on a...
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Civil War in Ireland: The Winter GuestReview: The Winter Guest , by W. C. Ryan Arcade, 2022. 321 pp. $27 A dangerous, painful task brings Tom Harkin from Dublin to Kilcogan House,...
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Dust Bowl Mystery: Funeral TrainReview: Funeral Train , by Laurie Loewenstein Akashic, 2022. 263 pp. $38 One evening in 1935, a passenger train derails near Vermilion, a...
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Where History Meets FictionThis week, I’ve published two essays about the historical background to Lonely Are the Brave , my novel about a Great War veteran set in rural...
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Impressions: Beyond That, the SeaReview: Beyond That, the Sea , by Laura Spence-Ash Celadon, 2023. 348 pp. $28 In 1940, as London’s taking a beating from German bombs,...
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Prisoners, Expatriates: The Piano TeacherReview: The Piano Teacher , by Janice K. Lee Penguin, 2009. 326 pp. $15 Claire Pendleton, newly married, accompanies her engineer husband,...
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Readers and Writers: An Alternative to GoodreadsI’ve been trying out alternatives to Goodreads, and shepherd.com is one you might not have heard of. As a reader, I can scroll through myriad book...
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More Than a Muse: Leonora in the Morning LightReview: Leonora in the Morning Light , by Michaela Carter S&S, 2021. 393 pp. $27 In 1937, twenty-year-old Leonora Carrington, would-be...
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Climbing the MountainWhen I broke into print twenty-five years ago, I did so as a historian, tracing the potato’s social and political influence on the Western world....
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Ancient Curses: The Children of JocastaReview: The Children of Jocasta , by Natalie Haynes Europa, 2018. 295 pp. $18 In the ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, a young girl is...
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Making Her Way: The StreelReview: The Streel , by Mary Logue U. of Minnesota, 2020. 216 pp. $23 In May 1877, Brigid Reardon, fifteen, and her sixteen-year-old brother,...
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When the Wheels Come Off: The Mitford SecretReview: The Mitford Secret , by Jessica Fellowes Minotaur, 2023. 365 pp. $29 It’s late December 1941, and the Luftwaffe is pounding London....
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Unions, Exploitation, and the Kitchen Sink: Gilded MountainReview: Gilded Mountain , by Kate Manning Scribner, 2022. 445 pp. $28 In April 1907, Sylvie Pelletier’s Québecois family uproots from...
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What a State They’re In: HomesteadReview: Homestead , by Melinda Moustakis Flatiron, 2023. 256 pp. $28 In 1956, without even a proper map, Lawrence Beringer stakes claim to 150...
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Bad Mother: This Lovely CityReview: This Lovely City , by Louise Hare Anansi, 2020. 384 pp. $18 Lawrence (Lawrie) Mathews, a young Jamaican whose brother died fighting...
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Advance review copies came in!Even the third time around, holding a book of mine fresh from the publisher gives me a thrill. And Lonely Are the Brave is my debut...
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Searchers: The Sun Walks DownReview: The Sun Walks Down , by Fiona McFarlane FSG, 2023. 352 pp. $28 September 1883 witnesses spectacular sunsets in South Australia—and in...
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Love Letter to Pulp Fiction: Paperback JackReview: Paperback Jack , by Loren D. Estleman Forge, 2022. 224 pp. $27 Jacob Heppleman returns to New York from World War II in 1946, thinking...
