Reviews written by Erich Eipert

Sasha Zaichik, the protagonist in this short novel, Breaking Stalin’s Nose, by Eugene Yelchin, is less a hero than an innocent victim, for what else can you call a ten-year old who’s been brought up with nothing but lies in a cynical, totalitarian state that maintains itself through fear and...

The Vietnam Conflict ended nearly forty years ago, yet it still touches our lives. Everybody Sees the Ants depicts how lives are still affected by what happened. This is a not an easy book to describe because it juggles three themes: bullying, life in a dysfunctional...