Set in the early 2000s, Freeheld is the story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a New Jersey police detective and in-the-closet lesbian who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her partner, Dane Wells (Michael Shannon), for all her years on the force. She meets Stacie Andree (Ellen Page), a much younger lesbian and the […]
My Salinger Year is an understated yet spellbinding novel set in New York over 1996. It describes the year in which a young woman spent working at a literary agency that represented J.D. Salinger. The poignant memoir plays out by aligning itself with the experiences of a young drop-out grad student named Joanna Rakoff, who […]
Tim Weaver’s What Remains is the latest addition to the atmospheric and suspenseful series about the cases taken on by missing persons investigator, David Raker. The success of the story lies in the fact that, even taken out of the context of the series of which it is a part, it seems to be the […]
Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train is the novel of the moment. It is often somewhat inevitably compared to Gillian Flynn’s ever-popular Gone Girl because of the similarity in genre as a psychological thriller, and because both books feature a compelling and increasingly sinister mystery set around a woman who has gone missing. […]