Nadia Hashimi’s A House Without Windows is the kind of book tailor-made to make feminist Westerners […]
The Young Reader is on Her Own
Last Saturday, James Wallace Harris asked on Book Riot what 12 books one might give one’s […]
Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
Based around the real sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, Ruta Sepetys’s novel, Salt to the Sea, […]
The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan
Originally published in 1991, Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife gives us (well, at least me) […]
This week on the bookish internet
Dashka Slate reflects on a heretofore unexamined wrinkle in the push for diverse children’s literature: […]
Babayaga, by Toby Barlow
Will van Wyck is an ordinary advertising man, working in France around 1960. On the […]
At Twilight They Return, by Zyranna Zateli
Zyranna Zateli’s meandering collection of tales, At Twilight They Return (translated by David Connolly), reminds me […]
Where my critics at?
While reading Amy Hungerford’s article “On Refusing to Read,” which described how curiously blind literary […]
The Last Days of New Paris, by China Miéville
I’m often drawn to books simply because the premise amuses or intrigues me, only to […]
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
Cenzo Vianello has been sitting out the war, fishing his family’s waters in the lagoons […]