Tara Cheesman is a freelance book critic and National Book Critics Circle member whose recent reviews can be found at The Rumpus, Book Riot, and The Quarterly Conversation. Since 2009 she’s written the blog Reader At Large (formerly BookSexy Review).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Tilting at Windmills
Tara Cheesman reviews “Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama....
Messy Human Beings: On “In the Distance with You”
"In the Distance with You" has all the twists and turns of a long-running daytime soap. What ultimately carries it isn’t the plot, but the characters....
Who to Believe?
On “The Wife” by Alafair Burke....
The Provocateur’s Spirit
On “My Heart Hemmed In” by Marie NDiaye....
