TEDrake Book Blog

  When Ethan Frome was published reviewers described it as an unfortunate love story that was not to be. Well, maybe, I guess, for hopeless...

  I just finished reading The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever . It is a sequel to his 1957 book The Wapshot Chronicle, a book I liked a lot...

  Among the many authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance none looms larger than Claude McKay . His 1928 book Home to Harlem captures ...

  One of the most significant chapters in African American history was the Harlem Renaissance, a period of time from the end of World War I,...

  Last year when I blogged The Day of the Locusts by Nathanael West , my recommendation was a no. I did, however, qualify that critique by...

  Every once in a while I’ll read works by an author who I know next to nothing about. Such was the case when I picked up the collected nove...

Ursula (Kroeber) Le Guin (1929 – 2018) was a prolific American writer with a large body of work in what most people would categorize in the...