Hamilton Cain
Hamilton Cain reviews fiction and nonfiction for a range of outlets, including the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Enduring Trauma in Javier Zamora’s ‘Solito’
Scientific findings point to epigenetic changes in those who survive traumas, such as the one that the author of the California Book Club’s June selection endured in migration.
Breaking with the Poetry World’s Orthodoxy
In the early 1960s, poets as different as CBC author Gary Snyder and Sylvia Plath were using new, similar literary devices, departing from vaunted standards for prosody.
Lost Too Early
In Stay True, the July California Book Club selection, author Hua Hsu examines the nuances of male friendship.
For Love and Money
In the February California Book Club selection, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less, the author pays homage to a French adventure novel.