Baum on Books

A remarkably wise, slyly humorous and compassionate review of the year Keller spent gardening with his Connecticut “clients” (as he calls them) — cancer patients, special needs children, kids in juvenile detention facilities.

Book Critic Joan Baum went into her archives and rediscovered a novel that imagines what happened to author Herman Melville during his “silent years.”

The story, set in part on Gardiners Island in Long Island Sound, is intended as a tribute to Henry James’s massive 1904 novel The Golden Bowl.

WSHU’s Book Critic Joan Baum spoke with former Congressman Israel about his love of books and why reading books is vital.

WSHU’s Book Critic Joan Baum spoke with former Congressman Israel about his love of books and why reading books is vital.

In 1938 a complex plan was underway to remove Adolf Hitler from power. A new historical novel takes a closer look at that plot and how it all went wrong.

Brutally realistic about the effects of war and realpolitik, but also affectingly personal and nostalgic, The Bucharest Dossier is suspenseful enough to make one forget the woes of the world for a while.

In his first novel, author Jeff Schnader sets his novel during the volatile student protests on the Columbia University campus in 1972.

Award-winning writer Colson Whitehead's latest novel is a comic crime caper set in 1960s Harlem.

Yale University Press has published the new edition of its Book of Quotes. This latest version sets the record straight on who really said what.