by Admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Children, college, high school, Memoir, Parenting, reconciliation, teaching tales, young adults
From the New York Journal of Books web site The Last First Day: A Novel by Carrie Brown. Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: September 17, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (304 pages) For the past 30 years I have taught at a fairly large New England prep school in the Boston...
by Admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Children, college, creativity, high school, teaching tales
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley Jamieson Webster Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 25, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (288 pages) “Stay, Illusion! is not a graceful gavotte but a gallop through the fields of thought . . .” Stay, Illusion! is...
by Admin | Jun 11, 2013 | Memoir
by Julie Kavanagh Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 11, 2013 Publisher: Knopf (304 pages) From the New York Journal of Books, June 11 2013 “We are in Julie Kavanagh’s debt for shining a light on this woman almost forgotten in the dust of history, allowing her...
by Admin | Jun 11, 2013 | Children, Parenting, young adults
From the New York Journal of Books, June 11 2013 One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One by Lauren Sandler Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 11, 2013 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (224 pages) “. . . raises provocative...
by Admin | Jun 4, 2013 | creativity, fiction, Uncategorized, young adults
From: The New York Journal of Books, June 4, 2013 Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 4, 2013 Publisher: Knopf (256 pages) “But this narrative, a story of family domesticity and femininity—desires, wiles, superstitions—is light fare for a historical novel that...
