Articles by Veronique De Turenne

Tiger, Tiger A Novel Galaxy Craze Black Cat: 228 pp., $14 paper ASEQUEL is a tricky thing. Read more

So Brave, Young, and Handsome A Novel Leif Enger Atlantic Monthly Press: 336 pp., $24 LET’S GET this right out of the way: Leif Enger, the author of “Peace Like a River,” a wildly successful debut novel, took seven years to write his second book. Read more

“THE End of the Alphabet,” a sad and sweet debut novella by CS Richardson, starts with a death sentence. Read more

IT’S the year 2017 in Los Angeles, the setting for Kurt Wenzel’s futuristic Hollywood novel “Exposure,” and the city is pretty much the same as it is today, only more so. Read more

THERE’S a pun in the title of Rick Moody’s audacious and uneven eighth book, “Right Livelihoods,” but whether it’s the thugs’ hoods or the ‘hoods they inhabit that are right lively is up for grabs. Read more

THE Santa Monica Mountains lie like Gulliver amid the scores of suburban Lilliputs that form Los Angeles County. Read more

THERE was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of her obituary. Read more

THERE’S a scene in Carolyn See’s new novel, “There Will Never Be Another You,” that could be a blueprint for this sly and stealthy rabbit-punch of a book. Read more

DEER racing past families frantically packing cars. Read more