Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. If you didn’t already know this, you will after […]
The Guineveres, by Sarah Domet
The girls in Sarah Domet’s The Guineveres have so much going against them. They’ve been abandoned […]
This House is Mine, by Dörte Hansen
Generally speaking, home is the place where we belong. Our family are there. Our memories […]
The Food of a Younger Land, edited by Mark Kurlansky
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I grew up on a blend of midwestern […]
Biblioprudence; Or, This brings new meaning to the term “sentencing”
At the end of September, Taylor Sperry wrote at Moby Lives about a strange case from Italy […]
The Chosen Ones, by Steven Sem-Sandberg
Steven Sem-Sandberg’s The Chosen Ones (translated by Anna Paterson) is a difficult book to read. First, there […]
Nineveh, by Henrietta Rose-Innes
I never read Hal Herzog’s Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, but the […]
Odessa Stories, by Isaac Babel
Russian literature has (deservedly) a reputation for being utterly depressing and heavy—which is why it’s […]
This week on the bookish internet
One of the most entertaining things about studying the eighteenth century is learning how many […]