Dr Tony Shaw

You just can't tell with Anne Tyler. In 2012, at the time of the publication of her last novel The Beginner's Goodbye , Tyler sa...

This is Anne Tyler's latest novel, and it will probably be several years before she publishes another. It's her nineteenth, and...

  The Clock Winder is Anne Tyler's fourth novel, and the year it was published the New York Times had very little to say about it...

A major theme of Anne Tyler's Morgan's Passing is the gulf between appearance and reality, which runs everywhere in the book, bu...

It's slightly odd how this looks like a YA cover, but then this is a 1980s edition, and I suppose many covers at that time were inte...

Orville Prescott was the chief book reviewer for the New York Times for many years. In 1964 he concluded his review of Anne Tyler's...

Reviewing Anne Tyler's Digging to America in The New York Times here , Michiko Kakutani finds the coincidence of the two separate ...

Pearl Tull is an old woman who's dying, although she doesn't do so until the end of the ninth section of this ten-section novel,...

When Delia and Joel are talking about the absence of words to express subtleties, Joel regrets that there's only one word to describe...

Elements of the Southern Gothic are plentiful in Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions . Charlotte says of her grotesquely obese mother: ...

This is the story of Macon Leary, whose wife Sarah leaves him not very long after their son Ethan has been shot through the head for no ...

A little like Barnaby Gaitlin in A Patchwork Planet , Liam Pennywell in Noah's Compass is a loser. He's divorced of course, and...

Rebecca Davitch is having a picnic with her family on North Fork River, Maryland, celebrating the engagement of her youngest stepdaug...

'I just can't stand to be one of those artificial fathers [...] with those busywork visits to zoos and smalltalk suppers at M...

Ira and Maggie Moran are driving from Baltimore, Maryland, to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, to the funeral of Max, the husband of Serena, Ma...