A Novel Concept

By Michael Malone “The Latecomer” is the story of a wealthy New York family in an immense house on the Brooklyn Esplanade, overlooking lower Manhattan. Salo Oppenheimer runs an investment firm and collects pricey art. Johanna raises the triplets. Ah, those

Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange’s follow-up novel to his 2018 debut There There, tells the story of the Indigenous experience in America from a unique perspective. Things begin with Jude Star, a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which saw

By Michael Malone “Reboot” is an odd little novel. Its protagonist is David, who was in the cast of a hit teen TV show a generation before and is now bumbling through life battling alcohol, twice divorced, a not-all-that-present father, struggling

By Michael Malone “Trust Her” is the story of Tessa Daly. She’s a Belfast woman based in Dublin, who a few years ago informed on the IRA to the British security outfit MI5. She has a new identity in Dublin, a

I picked up The Outsiders because we are going to see the Broadway show tomorrow. The show is a hit, and just won the Tony for best musical. I read The Outsiders when I was a teen, same as every other teen in America.

By Michael Malone It was 20 years ago that a novel about a serial killer in late 1800s Manhattan landed.  “The Alienist” told the story of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a child psychologist, or “alienist,” in the parlance of the times, teaming

By Michael Malone “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is not for everyone. In fact, it’s not for most. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is, in actuality, for an exceedingly slim portion of the population. MFA students at elite universities. Nobel Prize judges.

By Michael Malone “Harlem Shuffle” is the story of Ray Carney, who runs a furniture shop in Harlem, is a husband and father and mixes some shady business with the legit other half of his life. Colson Whitehead wrote “Harlem Shuffle,” which