In the mountains of North Carolina in the mid-twentieth century, there aren’t a lot of […]
Happiness, by Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna’s novel, Happiness, is so good that, when I finished, I just had to sit […]
A Weird Fiction Thing I Like: Stories About Buildings Full of Strangers
One of my weird, bookish thrills is finding new genre-lets that delight me. My most […]
Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford
Cash money is so common that it’s hard to imagine a time when it was […]
A Castle in Romagna, by Igor Štiks
There are some stories we tell over and over because people always think that, this […]
The Last Watchman of Cairo, by Michael David Lukas
Joseph, like many other literary sons, only really learns who his father is after his […]
Memento Park, by Mark Sarvas
Matt Santos has had the misfortune of completely misunderstanding his father. He thought he knew […]
The Natashas, by Yelena Moskovich
Yelena Moskovich’s grueling novel, The Natashas, is, I’m afraid, a story that will only be read […]
Oh My God With the Feelings; Or, I Never Got Romeo and Juliet
I don’t have a hard time with unlikeable characters. I can understand curmudgeons. The characters […]