It turned out to be an odd bit of serendipity that I read The Good Earth […]
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Originally published in 1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck delivers a problematic (for oh so many […]
The Ballroom, by Anna Hope
After reading a couple of romance novels to get The Midwife out of my system, I […]
The Midwife, by Katja Kettu
Finnish Lapland is a brutal place. It’s above the Arctic Circle. It’s remote. Until the […]
House of Blazes, by Dietrich Kalteis
A wronged convict seeking revenge is not an uncommon one. What makes Dietrick Kalteis’s House of […]
Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood
One of the joys of reading the Hogarth Shakespeare series is seeing how different authors […]
The Devourers, by Indra Das
Alok shouldn’t trust the stranger he meets at a baul (a musical performance by Bengali […]
The Angel of History, by Rabih Alameddine
Jacob is an angry, lonely man who has lost his ability to write poetry. Oh, […]