Reviews by Roberta Silman

Fuse Book Review: Israeli Novelist A.B. Yehoshua’s Fascinating “Retrospective”
The Retrospective by A.B. Yehoshua. Translated by Stuart Schoffman.
Fuse Book Review: “The Wanting” — Ambitious and Audacious Fiction about the Middle East
The Wanting by Michael Lavigne
the art fuse:Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point”
The End of The Point by Elizabeth Graver
Fuse Book Review: A Remarkable “My Beloved World”
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer
Fuse Book Review: Transformation Amid an Egypt in Decay — “The House of Jasmine”
the house of jasmine by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Fuse Book Review: The Wonderful and Silly Adventures of “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared”
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Fuse Book Review: “Thinner Than Skin” — Ambitious to a Fault
Thinner Than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan
Fuse Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story
A Fairwell to Isaiah Sheffer
Fuse Book Review: A Wilted “Black Flower” From Korea
Black Flower by Young-Ha Kim
the boston globe: ‘The News from Spain’ by Joan Wickersham
The News from Spain by Joan Wickersham
Fuse Book Review: Steve Stern’s Fabulous “Book of Mischief”
The Book of Mischief, New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern
Fuse Book Review: “The Greatcoat” – A Great Ghost Story?
The Greatcoatby Helen Dunmore
Fuse Book Review: “Motherless Child” — The Redemptive Powers of Classical Music
Motherless Child by Marianne Langner Zeitlin
Fuse Opera Review/​Commentary: A Magisterial “Lost in the Stars” at Glimmerglass
Lost in the Stars a co-production of Cape Town Opera and Glimmerglass Opera
the boston globe: Letters show a young, eager Edith Wharton
My Dear Governess, Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann edited by Irene Goldman-Price
Fuse Fiction Review: “Sarah Thornhill” — A Lyrical Song in the Australian Outback
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Fuse Book Review: “Second Person Singular”—A Powerful Look at Israel’s Tangled Issues of Identity
Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua
Fuse Appreciation: The Centenary of Australian Giant Patrick White
Fuse Appreciation: The Centenary of Australian Giant Patrick White
Fuse Book Review: “When the Night” — A Memorably Icy Love Story
When The Night by Cristina Comencini
Fuse Book Review: “The O’Briens”— A Grand Family Epic
The O'Briens by Peter Behrens
Fuse Theater Review: All Glory to “Gatz” — “The Great Gatsby” Takes the Stage
Gatz directed by John Collins
Fuse Book Review: Celebrating “The Flowers of War”
The flowers of War by Geling Yan
Fuse Book Review: “Three Weeks in December”
Three Weeks In December by Audrey Schulman
Fuse Book Review: "The Secret in Their Eyes" — An Impressive Work of Art
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
Fuse Book Review: An Outstanding "List"
The List by Martin Fletcher
Fuse Book Review: Brilliant "Shards"
Shards by Ismet Prcic
the boston globe: A richer, detailed portrait of van Gogh
VAN GOGH: The Life By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Fuse Book Review: A Memoir That Gives Solace to Us All
Lives other than My own by Emmanuel Carrere
fuse book commentary: The Emperor of Lies = The Emperor's New Clothes?
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Fuse Book Review: Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream -- Updated
The Great Night by Chris Adrian
Fuse Book Review: A Puzzling Look at the West, Islam, and The Convert
The Convert, A Parable of Islam and America by Deborah Baker
the boston globe: The barbarity of slavery bared
Song of Slaves in the Desert by Alan Cheuse
the boston globe: In our time
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The New York Times: In the Company of Ghosts
THE RINGS OF SATURN by W.G. Sebald
Fuse Book Review: Two Old Men Singing of Wisdom
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Fuse Book Review: Exploring “The Memory of Love” in postwar Sierra Leone
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
the american scholar: the swiveling light of truth (3.6MB)
short stories by grace paley
The Virginia Quarterly: A Consummate Artist
Willa Cather and The Politics of Criticism By Joan Acocella
The Virginia Quarterly: A Radiance of Attention
The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed By Jane Cooper
The Boston Globe: Dazed and confused in a perilous Tokyo underworld
Country of Origin By Don Lee
The Boston Globe: Living 'in between' in chaotic 1950s Kenya
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall By M. G. Vassanji
The Boston Globe: Home alone
The Lost Mother By Mary McGarry Morris
The Boston Globe: A Civil War-era underworld and its evil genius
Canaan's Tongue By John Wray
The Boston Globe: A death in the family, in the aftermath of war
The Truth of the Matter By Robb Forman Dew
The Boston Globe: In 'Browning,' possession is nine-10ths of the draw
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life By Mameve Medwed
The Boston Globe: In a tumultuous time, a complicated woman
First Lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil Wars By Joan E. Cashin
The Boston Globe: Armies of the night
The Castle in the Forest By Norman Mailer
The Boston Globe: Narrative of love and sadness on American plains falls flat
What the Thunder Said By Janet Peery
The Boston Globe: In moving stories, the Iraq war haunts the families of US soldiers
"Refresh, Refresh" by Benjamin Percy
The Boston Globe: Too many voices, vices in Vegas novel
Beautiful Children By Charles Bock
The Boston Globe: Amid the losses of war, unlikely alliances bloom
Skeletons At The Feast By Chris Bohjalian
The Boston Globe: A story of surviving, and accepting, tragedy
The Cure for Grief by Nellie Hermann
The Boston Globe: A cryptic saga of sisters, twisted by a heinous crime
The story sisters By Alice Hoffman
the boston globe: Portrait of the artist
The Diary of A young Girl by Anne Frank
the boston globe: A taste of Trollope
A taste of Trollope by Stephen McCauley
The Boston Globe: Behind the scenes with Aristotle and pupil Alexander
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Fuse Book Review: A Pair of Darkly Jolly Jolleys
The Sugar Mother and Foxybaby by Elizabeth Jolley
Book Review: 'Making Toast'
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Book Review: A Rat's Tale
Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt
Fuse Books: Edith Wharton’s The Mount Sponsors the First Annual Berkshire Wordfest
The Mount
Fuse Flash: Postscript on Wordfest at The Mount
Wordfest
Book Review: Classic Coming-of-Age?—The Chester Chronicles
The Chester Chronicles by Kermit Moyer
World Books Review: Chased out of Paradise
Light of My Eye by Paula Jacques
World Books Review: The Brilliance of Ordinary Lives
Ordinary Lives by Josef Skvorecky
World Books Review: An Urgent “February”
February by Lisa Moore
World Books Review: An Australian Masterpiece
Vera Wright Trilogy by Elizabeth Jolley
World Books Review: An uneven ‘Storm’
The Storm by Margriet de Moor
World Books Review: Life Under Mao
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
World Books Review: A Masterpiece From Israel
To The End of the Land by David Grossman

Selected Works

Short Stories
Direct, compelling, painfully honest, these moving stories dig deep beneath the surface of family life.
Novel
Tender, affecting novel that explores the pain of loss, and, in its wake, the arduous task of building anew, Boundaries reveals Roberta Silman's rich, absorbing perception of the priorities, the limitless reaches, and the insistence, of love.
A complex tale of joy, loss, and madness which ends in mysterious drowning.
A novel about the women whose husbands went to Los Alamos to make the atomic bomb.
Children's Book
A children's book about adoption.
The book concentrates on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. It also deals briefly with contemporary physicists and astronomers.

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