The ability to write is so ubiquitous to people in the developed world that it’s […]
The Book of Speculation, by Erika Swyler
Family secrets have a way of haunting descendants, even when the descendants don’t know the […]
The joys of closely reading someone else closely reading
Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of […]
The Rent Collector, by Camron Wright
Camron Wright’s uneven tale of redemption and education, The Rent Collector, is set in the very […]
The Liminal War, by Ayize Jama-Everett
Ayize Jama-Everett created a dangerous alternate world of super-powered humans in The Liminal People. We rejoin […]
The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
These days, my favorite genre books are the ones that don’t fit neatly into any […]
“Which ones should we not publish?”
Icelandic publishing has a weird problem. Nearly every book in Iceland is published around Christmas. […]
The Meursault Investigation, by Kamel Daoud
“Mama’s still alive today” (Chapter I*). So begins Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, the long-needed Arab version […]
The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins
How does one make a god? The myths we have mostly have gods appearing out […]