NON-FICTION
Reviews
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
Articles
“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.