NON-FICTION

John P. Loonam page at The Washington Independent Review of Books:

It is with sadness that I report that the New York Journal of Books, which published several of my reviews, has ceased to operate.  As a result, these reviews are no longer publicly available:

• Duet for One by Martha Anne Toll, Regal House Publishing, 2025

• My Darling Boy by John Dufresne, WW Norton, 2025

• Twist by Colum McAnn, Random House, 2025

• Three Muses by Martha Anne Toll, Regal House Publishing, 2022

• Call It Horses by Jessie van Eerden, Dzanc Books, 2021

PopMatters:

• Slow Stories by Bette A. with accompanying music by Brian Eno. March, 2026

• The Summer We Ate Off the China by Devin Jacobsen, January 2026

Southern Review of Books:

• I’ll Take My Body To Go by Kindall Fredericks, April, 2026

• “The Voices of Reason – And the Banned Played On,” The Washington Independent Review of Books, February 22, 2024.

• “Friendship and Solitude in Elena Ferrante and Marilynne Robinson,” Meredith Sue Willis’s Books for Readers, May 10, 2021. 

•  “Looking But Not Seeing:  Poverty in the American Imagination,” NFG Reports, Bridging the Gap:  Reshaping Poverty Policy in America.  Special Conference Issue, Fall 2008.

•  “A New Class is a New Class,” The English Journal, September 1988.

•  “Believing in the Public Schools is No Game,” The English Journal, February 1987.