I have also reviewed The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, the first two books in this trilogy. […]
Eulogy for Lost Books
In the course of doing something incredibly nerdy*, I discovered that two of my books […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was everywhere when it came out […]
The Man from the Train, by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
A family was murdered in rural Iowa, in 1912, with an axe. While people were […]
This week on the bookish internet
Katie McLain has personal rules about hunting down books. (Book Riot) The Fiction Fan has […]
Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck
There is a pair of old Latin phrases that have been found inscribed on graves […]
Lazaretto, by Diane McKinney-Whitestone
Even though they are nothing alike in terms of characters or plot, Lazaretto, by Diane McKinney-Whitestone, […]
The Gamble; Or, Thoughts on Afterwords and Forewords
In the past two days, I’ve read two challenging novels in translation. I say challenging […]
Judgment, by David Bergelson
Originally published in Yiddish by David Bergelson in 1929, this newly translated (by Harriet Murov […]
Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Greg
The stories in Wioletta Greg’s Swallowing Mercury (translated by Eliza Marciniak into crisp British English) offer […]