Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Summer Guest” A Novel By Alison Anderson
by Nidhi Pugalia Does knowing that art is designed, not divined, make it any less authentic? Inspired by the…
June 24, 2016-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “All My Puny Sorrows” A Novel by Miriam Toews
by Alexandra Bowie Can one ever escape the past? That’s a question Miriam Toews raises in her sad, funny,…
June 10, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide” by Michael Kinsley
by Alexandra Bowie It’s perhaps an odd way to put it, but thought-provoking: old age comes for us all,…
May 27, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Ways to Disappear” a novel by Idra Novey
by Alexandra Bowie Pity Emma Neufeld, the protagonist of Idra Novey’s delightful novel “Ways to Disappear.” Emma is a…
May 13, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy” A Memoir by Sue Klebold
by Alexandra Bowie It’s easy to understand why the parent of a murderer may be ostracized by her community.…
April 29, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Year of the French,” a novel by Thomas Flanagan
by Alexandra Bowie A small country, populated by an uneducated peasantry who make their living as farmers, with a…
April 22, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone” by Olivia Laing
by Alexandra Bowie The loss of a love affair, and the subsequent plunge from being one of a pair…
April 15, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination” by Richard Mabey
by Alexandra Bowie Plants give humans many things: Oxygen. Shade. Beauty. Food. Scientific insights. Subjects for works of art.…
April 8, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” A Novel by Anthony Marra
A village outside of Grozny, the Chechen capital, a hospital–one of the few buildings still standing in the bombed-out…
March 25, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanathi
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths . . . I would spread the cloths under your feet Paul…
March 18, 2016