The Book Sommelier is back! Here are some recommended pairings for your delectation: Creatures of […]
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
What do we do with people who break laws? If they’re in America, they’re thrown […]
Babylon, by Yasmina Reza
There are several variations of this old saying, but that all go something to the […]
Before She Sleeps, by Bina Shah
Trigger warning for references to rape. The women of Green City have one duty. As […]
This week on the bookish internet
Melissa Ragsdale has created some long-needed etiquette for how to loan books to friends and then […]
The Court Dancer, by Kyung-Sook Shin
Yi Jin, the protagonist of Kyung-Sook Shin’s lushly written The Court Dancer, is not just star-crossed […]
The Third Hotel, by Laura van den Berg
Grief makes people act strangely, especially when someone has lost someone very close to them. […]
Lost for Words About Words; Or, Some Thoughts About Reviewing Translations
I’ve been thinking about translation since a kind reader asked what I thought about a […]
Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal
One of the things librarians kvetch about (and we kvetch about a lot of things) […]
The Question of Red, by Laksmi Pamuntjak
I don’t know why parents name their children after tragic figures from history, literature, or […]