Section 01
Reviews
Honest takes on books worth your evening. We review a small number of books properly rather than many books quickly — no stars, no scores, a verdict you can argue with.
- 01
Wolf Hall, and the Pleasure of a Long Book
A doorstopper that moves faster than most short novels, and why the present tense does it.
- 02
The Overstory: Nine Lives and a Forest
A novel that asks you to care about trees, and mostly succeeds.
- 03
Educated, and the Memoir of Escape
A memoir that stays hard to argue with because it never oversells itself.
- 04
Normal People, Reread
A short novel that rewards a second pass more than a first.
- 05
Piranesi and the Pleasure of Not Knowing
A small strange book that trusts the reader completely.
