It’s a miracle that The Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers, exists. It was written by […]
Cult X, by Fuminori Nakamura
Trigger warning for rape. I found Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X (translated by Kalau Almony) infuriating. I […]
Damnation Island, by Stacy Horn
It’s an old saw that the measure of a society is how they treat it’s […]
This week on the bookish internet
Dana Lee shares her bookish habits/rituals. I wish I was more interesting reader having read […]
Familiar Things, by Hwang Sok-yong
Bugeye doesn’t have much going for him at the beginning of Hwang Sok-yong’s Familiar Things (translated […]
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, by Connie Willis
Connie Willis’ I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land is either a long short story […]
Book v. Movie: The Death of Stalin
Last week, I caught the last showing of The Death of Stalin—a satire I’ve been wanting […]
Armistice, by Lara Elena Donnelly
Armistice, the sequel to Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough, picks up three years after the disastrous takeover […]
What Should Be Wild, by Julia Fine
Girls without mothers raised by somewhat clueless fathers are not uncommon in literature. What is uncommon is […]
Paper Ghosts, by Julia Heaberlin
Grace has gone a lot farther to figure out what happened to her missing sister […]