A few of the book bloggers I follow have written posts about which books they’d […]
Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Reading Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s collection, Friday Black, was like sticking my finger in a light socket. The […]
Melmoth, by Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry’s haunting novel, Melmoth, revolves around two ideas: loneliness and bearing witness. Throughout history, humans […]
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The more historical fiction I read—especially when it’s paired with a contemporary narrative, like a […]
This week on the bookish internet
Sarah Fawn Montgomery makes a compelling argument for why it’s so important to teach the […]
The Collector’s Apprentice, by B.A. Shapiro
In The Collector’s Apprentice, B.A. Shapiro continues her series of standalone novels of fictionalized art history. […]
In the House in the Dark of the Woods, by Laird Hunt
All of the fairy tales warn us to stay out of the woods. But, at […]
Start at the Beginning. Or the Middle. Or the End.
Since I finished The Witch Elm by Tana French last week, I’ve been thinking about a […]
In Your Hands, by Inês Pedrosa
Unlike anger, which writers can call to readers mind by making us think about the […]
Mother India, by Tova Reich
It would be tempting to read Tova Reich’s Mother India while looking for who to blame […]