Valerie Sayers

A Bronx Tale

Valerie Sayers

As her memoir My Beloved World makes clear, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has spent a lifetime challenging offensive remarks about minorities and the poor.

Men Behaving Badly

Valerie Sayers

Junot Díaz’s fiction alternately unsettles, amuses, challenges, delights, and wounds. His new collection of stories is especially wounding, playing nine variations on the theme of faithless Dominican-American men and the women they betray.

Desk Set

Valerie Sayers

Caffeinated Realism

Valerie Sayers

A review of Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections.

Summer Reading

Valerie Sayers Santiago Ramos Lauretta O'Connor Colin McEnroe

Displaced Souls

Valerie Sayers

Brooklyn, Bewitched

Valerie Sayers

A short story by the author of 'Who Do You Love,' 'Brain Fever,' and other novels.

After Great Pain

Valerie Sayers

Summer Reading

Valerie Sayers Santiago Ramos Patricia Hampl Lauretta O'Connor David S. Cunningham

False Start

Valerie Sayers

The Chosen Frozen

Valerie Sayers

A Noisy Soul

Valerie Sayers

Roberto Bolaño’s defiant fiction.

Vision Quest

Valerie Sayers

Waterloo

Valerie Sayers

Never Let Me Go

Valerie Sayers

There Is a Balm

Valerie Sayers

Valerie Sayers reviews Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

American Ghosts

Valerie Sayers

In his new memoir, writer David Plante offers a strange, mysterious, and deeply hopeful sense of spiritual possibility. Valerie Sayers reviews.

Summer Reading

Julia Vitullo-Martin Michele Dillon Rosemary Deen Benedicta Cipolla Valerie Sayers

The Crazed

Valerie Sayers

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