Xuan would be first in line to argue back with Cassius of Julius Caesar, who […]
Station Eternity, by Mur Lafferty
My family still cracks jokes about why on earth anyone would want to invite Jessica […]
Outlawed, by Anna North
Although biology and societal convention push Ada into it, she is really not cut out […]
The Best of 2021-2022
Of all 104 books I read this last twelve months, here are the ones I […]
The List, 2021-2022
This year’s round-up of my reading stats has me in a slightly worried, reflective mood. […]
All Your Children, Scattered, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Between April 7 and July 15, 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and Twa people […]
This week on the bookish internet
Lincoln Michel responds to the question, would the scandalous books of our past be publishable […]
Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka
The first pages of Danya Kukafka’s unsettling novel, Notes on an Execution, set the stage […]
The Witch and the Tsar, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Great characters never die. They invite us to retell and reimagine their stories for all […]
This week on the bookish internet
Aaron R. Hanlon wades through the responses to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing and our current fighting […]