Maryse Condé has been awarded the Alternate Nobel Literature Prize. (The Guardian) Rebecca Fosters shares […]
Ex-Libris, by Ross King
Isaac Inchbold, the humble proprietor of Nonsuch books, is an unlikely hero for a novel […]
The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald
In a depressed town on England’s eastern coast, Florence Green is determined to open a […]
Shut Up and Listen; Or, Having Bookish Guts
There are books that I describe as “deserve to be widely read.” I hate to […]
City of Ash and Red, by Hye-young Pyun
Trigger warnings for rape and violence to animals. The beginning of Hye-young Pyun’s novel, City of […]
A Conspiracy of Truths, by Alexandra Rowland
Chant (a title, not a name, he is quick to tell us) is not having […]
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence, by Michael Marshall Smith
Eleven-year-old Hannah is not having a good summer. Her parents are getting divorced and she […]
This week on the bookish internet
Sophie Gilbert discusses feminist dystopias. Even though it’s heavy reading, it serves as a good […]
The Kinship of Secrets, by Eugenia Kim
An impossible choice separates a Korean family just before the Korean War breaks out in […]
What’s Left Unsaid, by Deborah Stone
Trigger warning for child abuse and rape. Sympathy for fictional characters is often a matter […]