The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud I recently watched the first season of Justified, and the pilot episode ends with U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens ...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Thursday, May 2, 2013Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson Ursula Todd has many pasts and many futures. Every time she dies, Ursula starts back at the beginning of her life...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Monday, April 8, 2013Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala Wave opens immediately as the tsunami hits on Boxing Day in 2004. Sonali Deraniyagala is with her family, vacationing ...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Tuesday, March 12, 2013Wise Men by Stuart Nadler A friend recently told me that I didn't recommend enough novels in this column, which I thought was a little crazy, becau...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Tuesday, February 5, 2013The Reenactments by Nick Flynn My favorite Kurt Vonnegut novel is Timequake, in which a cosmic ripple forces everyone on Earth to relive the past d...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Monday, January 7, 2013For our final Books of the Month feature of 2012, we'll be spotlighting some notable releases we may have missed this year. Threats, by Amelia Gray...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Wednesday, December 5, 2012Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan Espionage, betrayal, scandal — only Ian McEwan could put these things in a novel and make them kind of slow. But S...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Monday, November 5, 2012The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg After 30 years of marriage, Richard Middlestein leaves his wife Edie, a lawyer whose lifelong love of food has s...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Tuesday, October 2, 2012This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz In college, I had a creative writing professor who claimed Junot Díaz had read 100 short-stor...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Thursday, September 6, 2012The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle For Pepper, what should be a 72-hour stay at the New Hyde Hospital's psych ward turns into a prolonged, drug-...
By Kevin Nguyen, Hollywood Prospectus on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
