Book Reviews

  • Educated: A Memoir

    There is a moment in Educated, Tara Westover’s extraordinary memoir of growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge, when the author realizes she has been given two entirely different accounts of her own childhood, one from her family and one from documents and records. She cannot…

  • The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro · Faber & Faber · 1989 · 258 pages ISBN: 978-0-571-15435-3 · Genre: Literary Fiction WritersReview Rating: 9/10 Review There are novels that become permanent fixtures of the literary conscience, books you carry inside you long after the final page, whose characters resurface unbidden in your own…