“Fascinating Complexity and Haunting Sorrow”: THE PAWNBROKER
November 10, 2015
The Pawnbroker is an honest, serious work of art about the human experience, with fascinating complexity and haunting sorrow. Wallant proffers an amazing exhibition of human power, weakness, tenderness, and grace in the characters he writes about.
A Rave for SAFEKEEPING in COLORADO REVIEW
November 5, 2015
“The scope of the novel is ambitious, but Hope has structured it wisely….”
NewPages.com Reviews COMPULSION
November 2, 2015
“Compulsion is a unique, first-hand account of a crime and the reverberations that continue both legally and culturally.”
Among “the Greatest Fiction Treatments of Holocaust Survivors Ever Written”: THE PAWNBROKER
October 29, 2015
“Arguably one of the greatest fiction treatments of Holocaust survivors ever written, The Pawnbroker was the second of Edward Lewis Wallant’s two novels published in his lifetime.”
Adam Kirsch on the “Manly, Street-Smart Authenticity” in “the Quietly Compelling New Novel by Ben Nadler”
October 21, 2015
In a round-up article featuring novels that share a (perhaps surprising) “convergence of Jews and guns,” critic Adam Kirsch delves into The Sea Beach Line.
“A Worthy Exploration”: KIRKUS on THE PAWNBROKER
October 19, 2015
“[A] close cousin to Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant….”
“Ben Nadler’s Beautiful and Complex Second Novel”: THE SEA BEACH LINE
October 9, 2015
“We all tell ourselves stories, don’t we? The question The Sea Beach Line asks us to figure out is which ones really matter.”
“A Pleasurable and Engulfing Read”: SAFEKEEPING
October 8, 2015
“Thanks to Hope’s readable and descriptive prose as well as her ability to develop the characters to an endearing depth…we get swept up in the saga of the brooch and the troubled souls gravitating around it.”
“Highly Recommended” for Book Clubs: THE BOOK OF STONE
September 22, 2015
“I highly recommend this book for book clubs because Papernick’s story elicits discussion about issues such as religious and political fundamentalism, terrorism and violence.”
“New Edition for a New Generation”: Meyer Levin’s COMPULSION
September 22, 2015
“This new edition for a new generation is recommended for fans of crime novels [and] historical [fiction] and for book clubs.”