Recent content from Hamilton Cain
Review: Critic probes connection between books and depression in 'Bibliophobia'
Nonfiction: In a vibrant yet uneven memoir, critic Sarah Chihaya offers insights throughout and an urgent message about suicide.
The story behind the singalong holiday classic that shall reign forever and ever
Nonfiction: "Every Valley" traces the history of the creation of Handel's "Messiah."
Manchester United soccer players were among the crash victims whose tale is told in novel 'Munichs'
Fiction: The 1958 disaster killed 23 people.
What does your car say about you? 'The Driving Machine' knows.
Nonfiction: An eminent architecture writer brings his singular eye to a dazzling history of car design.
Review: You might think a history of tax havens would be dull but 'The Hidden Globe' is 'luminous'
Nonfiction: A brilliant expose of international tax havens reveals how the ruling class shapes our world.
Expect this history of trail-blazing Black communities to be in the hunt for big prizes
NONFICTION: "The Black Utopians" weaves dazzling memoir with little-known political history.
A collection of horror stories takes on Argentina and its (horrifying) history
FICTION: There may be a Nobel Prize in the future for its author, Mariana Enriquez.
A serial killer worms his way into many lives in 'scalp-tingling' novel 'Highway Thirteen'
FICTION: Fiona McFarlane's collection of linked stories probes lives devastated by an Australian serial killer.
Animals make lots of noise; book argues they may be trying to tell us something
NONFICTION: Was Dr. Dolittle onto something? A superb new science study makes the case.
A mysterious death and an urgent quest power this novel's troubled protagonist
FICTION: Dinaw Mengestu's wise "Someone Like Us" illuminates the immigrant experience and the legacy of addiction.
New book looks back at 1982, when "E.T.," "Blade Runner" and "The Thing" revolutionized how we see movies.
NONFICTION: Chris Nashawaty's paean to 1982′s sci-fi films is "the perfect nonfiction beach read."
'I didn't come here to make friends': Great book traces fallout of 'Real Housewives' and 'Survivor'
How did we end up at "The Real Housewives?" Emily Nussbaum's book about reality TV, "Cue the Sun!," has the answers.
'City on Fire' author wobbles with ambitious second novel, 'The Second Coming'
FICTION: Gifted Garth Risk Hallberg's new book is an uneven epic.
A Penobscot novelist wonders what it means to be Native in 'soulful' family drama 'Fire Exit'
FICTION: Morgan Talty's exquisite novel delivers on the promise of his prize-winning debut.
Stretching from WW II to the present, Claire Messud's new novel is a 'masterpiece'
FICTION: Sweeping, autobiographical "This Strange Eventful History" is textured and revelatory.
Looking at the historic bonds of animals and humans in 'Our Kindred Creatures'
NONFICTION: "Our Kindred Creatures" vividly re-creates the rise and spread of the ASPCA.
New book looks at the 'Native Nations' that called this land home before colonists arrived
NONFICTION: A single-volume history of Indigenous nations is both majestic in scope and intimate in tone.
Cheeky humor enlivens 'Wild Houses,' a tale of desperate Irish gangsters
FICTION: Colin Barrett's wondrous first novel delivers on the promise of his acclaimed short fiction.
'Until August' is the final novel from one of the all-time greats
FICTION: Gabriel García Márquez's final novella is short but as fully realized as his masterworks.
Before upcoming Walker exhibit, biography 'Radiant' shows Keith Haring was a charmer and tyrant
NONFICTION: Brad Gooch's biography illuminates an iconoclastic life devoted to art.
A family with autism braves the world in a novel by a writer with autism
FICTION: "All the Little Bird-Hearts" is an assured debut from gifted Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow.
Review: 'Lost & Found,' by Kathryn Schulz
A sublime, erudite memoir explores the connection between grief and love.
Review: 'The Dawn of Everything,' by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"The Dawn of Everything" is a vibrant if uneven survey of inequity through the ages.
Review: 'Magritte: A Life,' by Alex Danchev
A superb new biography illuminates the life and art of a leading Surrealist.
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: 'Liberty Is Sweet,' by Woody Holton
A prize-winning historian broadens and enriches our understanding of the American Revolution.
Review: 'Our Country Friends,' by Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart's rollicking, playful new novel skewers the mores of cultural elites during a pandemic shutdown.
Review: 'Harlem Shuffle,' by Colson Whitehead
FICTION: Colson Whitehead's enthralling, evocative new novel transforms a petty heist into a resonant exploration of race and class.
Review: 'Late City,' by Robert Olen Butler
FICTION: A Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a robust if uneven novel that encapsulates the American Century.
Review: 'Skinship,' by Yoon Choi
FICTION: A debut collection centered on myriad facets of the Korean-American experience.
Review: 'The Plague Year,' by Lawrence Wright
NONFICTION: A master of literary journalism explores the COVID-19 pandemic in revelatory detail.
Review: 'Finding the Mother Tree,' by Suzanne Simard
NONFICTION: "Finding the Mother Tree" illuminates the career of one of our most brilliant ecologists.
Review: 'The Five Wounds,' by Kirstin Valdez Quade
FICTION: This vibrant novel showcases one man's road to redemption.
Review: "Foregone," by Russell Banks
FICTION: Russell Banks' new novel explores morality and mortality.
Review: 'The Black Church,' by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
NONFICTION: A companion book to the PBS series "The Black Church" chronicles the intricate history of an institution at the heart of the American Experiment.
