Criticism
Book Reviews
Reviews of books and literary journals for The Boston Globe and WBUR’s The ARTery.
Julie writes book and journal reviews for The Boston Globe and for WBUR’s The ARTery. Here are just some of them.
- The Empathy Diaries by Sherry Turkle
- On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
- The Hakawati by Ramih Alameddine
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
- The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
- The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
- Percival’s Planet by Michael Byer
- Shorecliff by Ursula de Young
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Dark March by Colin Fleming
- Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
- Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
- Traveling with Spirits by Valerie Miner
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan
- Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
- Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
- The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
- Juliet in August by Diane Warren
- God’s Gym by John Edgar Wideman
- Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
- Treyf by Elissa Altman
- Homesick for Another World by Otessa Moshfegh
- Quiet Until the Thaw by Alexandra Fuller
Reviews of Literary Journals

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