Tara Cheesman is a freelance book critic, National Book Critics Circle member, and 2018-2019 Best Translated Book Award Fiction judge. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, CrimeReads, Guernica, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, and other online publications. She received her bachelor's of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. You can follow her on Twitter @booksexyreview and Instagram @taracheesman.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Deaths of Despair: On Hye-young Pyun’s “The Law of Lines”
Tara Cheesman reviews Hye-young Pyun’s “The Law of Lines.”...

Riku Onda and the Shin Honkaku Mystery
Tara Cheesman investigates “The Aosawa Murders,” written by Riku Onda and translated by Alison Watts....

Antihero City
Tara Cheesman reviews “The Night of Rome” by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo....

Anthony Horowitz Investigates
Tara Cheesman reviews “The Sentence Is Death” by Anthony Horowitz....

Tilting at Windmills
Tara Cheesman reviews “Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama....

Messy Human Beings: On “In the Distance with You”
"In the Distance with You" has all the twists and turns of a long-running daytime soap. What ultimately carries it isn’t the plot, but the characters....

Who to Believe?
On “The Wife” by Alafair Burke....

The Provocateur’s Spirit
On “My Heart Hemmed In” by Marie NDiaye....
