Book Review: How I Became a Famous Novelist
/Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist tells the tale of a writer/'content manager'. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreReview of Heros & Villians: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Warriors in History
/Steve Donoghue explores why eminent historian Frank McLynn's "Heroes & Villains is easily the most frustrating book he’s ever written."
Read MoreReview of BoneMan's Daughters
/In his review of BoneMan's Daughters, Steve Donoghue takes Ted Dekker to task, writing, "the experience is constantly given an extra-gummy sheen by carrying a freight of Biblical and quasi-Biblical double meanings."
Read MoreReview of Before I Lose My Style
/Steve Donoghue reviews the structurally bold gay novel "Before I Lose My Style".
Read MoreReview of The Great Perhaps
/Steve Donoghue review "The Great Perhaps," "Joe Meno’s best book to date by several orders of magnitude."
Read MoreReview of Meriwether Lewis
/Find out more about Danisi and Jackson's biography of Meriwether Lewis by reading Steve Donoghue's informing review: "but we know what kind of a book Danisi and Jackson have written: meaty, entertaining, and best of all, definitive."
Read MoreReview of Into the Beautiful North
/Into the Beautiful North, writes Steve Donoghue, is "a strong, sensitive, wonderful novel, one richly deserving of wide success."
Read MoreReview of You Are Here
/Steve Donoghue digs into Donald Breckenridge's stylistically arresting "You Are Here"
Read MoreReview of Patient Zero
/"Patient Zero is full of sharp dialogue, rapid-fire action, fascinating (and, the author somewhat disturbingly promises us, entirely fact-based) patho-science, and a wide array of deftly drawn characters."
Read MoreA Review of A Naked Singularity
/If a book of this unsettling oddness and power can be found, virtually at random, on the lists of one self-publish print-on-demand outfit, we might well lie awake wondering what else we're missing, out there in the sprawling infinitude of computers and ISBNs.
Read MoreReview of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
/In his review of, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Steve Donoghue explains why this book might make you want to "punch" the author...
Read MoreReview of Philip II of Macedonia
/In his review of a new biography of Philip II of Macedonia, Steve Donoghue encourages readers, "Those interested in ancient history – and yes, Alexander fans – are urged not to miss it."
Read MoreBook Review: Lowboy
/John Wray's Lowboy enters the New York subway system. Steve Donoghue follows it.
Read MoreBook Review: American Wife
/Neither of Curtis Sittenfeld’s two previous books, Prep or The Man of My Dreams , gave her readers any hint of the subtlety, wit, and sheer storytelling power that is so abundantly on display in her latest novel. Steve Donoghue dives in.
Read MoreBook Review: The China Diary of George H.W. Bush
/For a year in the mid 1970s George H.W. Bush was the head of the United States Liaison Office in China. Steve Donoghue laments the contrast they make with his incurious son.
Read MoreBook Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
/Mohammed Hanif's debut raises the specter of Joseph Heller. Steve Donoghue reviews A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Read MoreBook Review: Netherland
/Joseph O'Neill's Netherland combine September 11 and cricket. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Surprised by Hope
/N.T. Wright's book of theology earns its allusion to C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreDestruction Manual
/Plotlessness, gimmickry, tin-eared dialogue, navel-gazing, heavy-handed symbolism: Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman lovingly abuse these and other writerly sins in How Not to Write a Novel, and Steve Donoghue joins in their Bronx cheer
Read MoreBook Review: Quiver
/Does Peter Leonard's thriller "Quiver" stand up to the work of his famous father Elmore?
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