I have to describe The Gallows Curse, by Karen Maitland, as both historical fiction and historical […]
Here come the Puritans
Last week, several sources reported on Tara Schultz’s quest to have Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last […]
A God in Every Stone, by Kamila Shamsie
When the world is at war or a country is claiming its independence from an […]
Let us now praise inappropriate books for a book group
Today, I re-read Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, a collection of fairy tales re-written to explicitly […]
The Other Son, by Alexander Söderberg
The Other Son, by Alexander Söderberg, picks up a few months after the series debut, The […]
This week on the bookish Internet
Peter Kenyon reports for NPR on a bookstore in Istanbul that sprang up for Syrian […]
Half-Resurrection Blues, by Daniel José Older
There aren’t a lot of job opportunities out there for a man who’s half dead. […]
And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander
After all the heavy books I’ve been reading lately, I felt the need to dip […]
The End of Days, by Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days was published one year before Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, but […]
The Golovlyov Family, by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
At the end of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s biting satire, The Golovlyov Family, the narrator meditates on the […]