Non-Fiction

The Way from Street Kid to Millionaire by Igor Fostenko

Some memoirs ask for your sympathy. This one asks for your attention, then hands you a to-do list. The Way from Street Kid to...

The Last Emperor of China by Paul French

A spoiler-free review of The Last Emperor of China by Paul French: twenty-three months inside the Forbidden City, the unpublished diaries of the empress's American tutor, and a marriage the standard histories got wrong.

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

A spoiler-free review of Strangers by Belle Burden: a divorce memoir with a lawyer's precision about prenups and custody, and an unusually sharp ear for how a community narrates a woman's abandonment back to her.

Brain Damage by Freida McFadden

A woman reads the right-hand half of a name badge and spends ten minutes certain the hospital has sent a man to assault her. The badge says occupational therapist. Freida McFadden's early novel is written from inside a brain that cannot perceive its own left side, and the thing it cannot perceive is the thing that was done to it.

The French Illusion by John Grisham

Two American newlyweds are lifted off a Normandy road on the fifth day of their honeymoon. Both families pay two million dollars. Only the bride comes home. Grisham's fortieth novel has no courtroom, no lawyer-hero and no verdict, and it is angrier than anything he has written in a decade.

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