Alexandra Jacobs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alexandra Jacobs

I laughed, I cried... I love Molly Shannon... It's an amazing story of human resilience and familial resilience really.

Alexandra Jacobs

Thrust is an indignant and impressive novel, but only in spurts an enjoyable one, and maybe that’s exactly the point. Some will hurl it unfinished across the room. Others will savor its elaborately orchestrated punishments.

Alexandra Jacobs

We Should Not Be Friends” is an object lesson in the difference between male and female communication styles... (It) is a mild but often moving book... salted with Schwalbe’s well-established literary intelligence and a palpable empathy.

Alexandra Jacobs

“Tom Lake” is a quiet and reassuring book, not a rabble-rouser… Domestic contentment is its North Star, generational continuity its reliable moon. Only a cynic could resist lying down on a nice soft blanket to marvel at Patchett’s twinkling planetarium.

Alexandra Jacobs

It is thrilling to see @jenszalai⁩ on the cover of the print Book Review with her superb review of Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves,” as the Berlin Wall between this much pored-over publication and the daily staff critics is finally pulverized for the digital era.💥 https://t.co/D3nIW4K7lG

Alexandra Jacobs

After reading Andrew Leland’s memoir, “The Country of the Blind,” you will look at the English language differently…His own prose is jazzy and intelligent: loaded with statistics and studies in some places, lyrical elsewhere, with licks of understated humor.

Alexandra Jacobs

Also, I reviewed Helen Schulman's roman à clef based on Harvey Weinstein, Rose McGowan and Stella Penn Pechanac, the Black Cube spy. I'd call it feminist satire—SHETIRE? Somebody stop me!—though did not think to do so in these paragraphs. https://t.co/McWwxnvsQp

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Alexandra Jacobs

Bucknell will not be shucked so easily. Stone by stone, she’s built up a gritty, gorgeous monument to a curiously indelible 20th-century figure.

Alexandra Jacobs

An aspiring master of the universe reckons with his animality in this sparkling sophomore fiction. Two opposable thumbs up! https://t.co/cnKzxydZ0v

Alexandra Jacobs

Lots of books by and about women will be released in March, and this one doesn’t rankly smell, not remotely. Its bouquet is carefully gathered, wide-ranging, inoffensive, in a field that could actually use some stink bombs.