Every now and then, I get a book that has all the things I’ve wanted […]
This week on the bookish internet
Friedrich Nietzsche gets the Seussification we’ve all be waiting for. (Open Culture) Constance Grady does […]
Misery, by Stephen King
For years, I have only wholly loved one Stephen King work: Carrie. I’ve read some of […]
The Great [Name of Country] Novel
At the request of a reader I can never turn down*, I spent a couple […]
The Kindness of Enemies, by Leila Aboulela
After 9/11, I feel like the western world got a crash course in Islam. The […]
The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is hypnotic and disturbing. Wright pairs the long history of injustice […]
This week on the bookish internet
N.K. Jemisin’s Patreon project was so successful that she was able to resign from her job […]
The Bones of Grace, by Tahmina Anam
Zubaida has made a mess of her life. Part of it is not her fault. […]
Read before banning
Along with the most frequently cited reasons for challenging and banning books—sex, language, violence, “unsuited […]