There have always been stories about people who could do incredible things under pressure: lift […]
The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis
Baruch Kotler has just arrived in Yalta to find that his hotel reservation has evaporated. […]
Gutenberg’s Apprentice, by Alix Christie
In 1485, Peter Schoeffer visits a friend at Sponheim Monastery and takes the opportunity to […]
The art of reading satire
“A Modest Proposal,” 1729 Because I have an overdeveloped sense of schadenfreude, I read Failbook. […]
When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
If it hadn’t been picked for August by the book club, I would never have […]
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution, by Laurie Penny
“If you’re not outraged, then you’re just not paying attention.” – (Attribution unclear) Feminism has […]
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Earlier this week, someone asked me if I was reading anything good. I had to […]
Neverhome, by Laird Hunt
Constance Thompson was taught by her mother that their family does not turn the other […]
A trip to Powell’s
Taste in used bookstores is as individual as a reader’s taste in books. In my […]
Book talk; Or, Reader, read thyself
This post was inspired by a recent episode of The Readers, in which the hosts […]