James tempts us to believe just about anything we want to believe, then shows us that people have succumbed to this seduction throughout Capri’s history…. read more

This second and final posthumous collection of Oliver Sacks’s unpublished and uncollected essays was worth waiting for…. read more

Patrick Nathan’s debut novel declines to conform to the rules of any established literary category…. read more

Bullock has reached beyond his own generation and managed to create an entertaining, thoroughly researched cultural resource… read more

Murder Under the Fig Tree is a suspenseful, complex, and politically charged murder mystery … read more

The term “homosexual reparative therapy” conjures, for many of us, images of wrathful, bible-thumping parents dragging a 16-year-old into a church basement for an exorcism, or into a grim clinic for genital electroshock treatments…. read more

Hofler has spent a good deal of time exploring Dominick’s personal journals and letters, and has produced, amidst the juicy dish, a distinguished biography of a brilliant and complex man… read more

Bill Hayes has managed to tell his own moving story and to include Oliver Sacks, his partner of seven years, as a very active character but not the exclusive focus… read more

Murder Under the Bridge is a complex murder mystery, a chaotic police procedural, and a juicy clandestine lesbian romance… read more

The film’s title is apt: In cults, intelligent people have been known to suspend rationality in order to believe something that does not make sense… read more