I’ve been hearing about Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner, for a few years now. […]
Love is Hard; Or, Why I Love Beaten Up Books
A coworker dropped off a copy of Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson, in my office today. […]
Eight Perfect Murders, by Peter Swanson
Like many things in literature, the definition of “perfect murder” is a little wobbly. It […]
Second Sister, by Chan Ho-Kei
Trigger warning for suicide. Chan Ho-Kei’s astonishingly good Second Sister (fluidly translated by Jeremy Tiang) […]
Zuleikha, by Guzel Yakhina
There are certain periods of history that, when I read fiction or primary source accounts […]
This fortnight on the bookish internet
This Missouri bill that could send librarians to jail and defund libraries for lending “age-inappropriate” […]
The Imperial Wife, by Irina Reyn
I supposed that most women will come off the worse when compared to Catherine the […]
The Words Between Us, by Erin Bartels
Robin has been in hiding since she was fifteen years old. When her father was […]
They on the Brain
When I start I book, I often spend the first few chapters gathering clues about […]
Recursion, by Blake Crouch
Making up for our mistakes is hard enough even when it comes to small things […]