Reviewed by Jean Arboleda THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE By Melanie Benjamin 448 pp. Delacorte Press. Recent events have shown that it’s tough to be a woman in Hollywood. So it seems timely to come across a book about two remarkable […]

Reviewed by Jody Uy THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE By Melanie Benjamin 448 pp. Delacorte Press. The lights dim as you hastily make your way up the stairs to find your seat, remembering to double-check your ticket for the right number. You […]

Reviewed by Kai Jimenez THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE By Melanie Benjamin 448 pp. Delacorte Press. The first thing Frances Marion learned about “movies” is that they – the people who appeared in the silent, flickering images on screen – were not […]

Reviewed by Jed Cruz THE PERFECT NANNY By Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor 240 pp. Penguin Books. In The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani immerses the reader in a version of Paris not often seen in media: gloomy, uncaring, suffocating, and […]

Reviewed by Katya Rara THE PERFECT NANNY By Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor 240 pp. Penguin Books. After giving birth to her second child, ambitious French-Moroccan lawyer Myriam Massé decides to return to the career she’s put on hold, […]

Reviewed by EL de Jesus THE CHALK MAN By C. J. Tudor 288 pp. Crown. I think every person who’s ever been a kid has that one trigger memory, the one that brings back the taste of that lollipop flavor […]