Cassie Gutman speaks for a lot of bookish folk when she explains why you should […]
Dust Off the Bones, by Paul Howarth
I have a few rules about reading. If a book doesn’t hook you within 50 […]
Little Brother, by Ibrahima Balde
Little Brother, by Ibrahima Balde (co-written with Amets Arzallus Antia and solidly translated by Timberlake […]
Will, by Jeroen Olyslaegers
Jeroen Olyslaeger’s Will presents a complicated portrait of a man who was caught between the […]
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Liana Finck hilariously turns plot structures into cartoons. (New York Times) Valerie Stivers cooks a […]
The Bombay Prince, by Sujata Massey
Perveen Mistry returns to right wrongs in Sujata Massey’s The Bombay Prince. This entry sees […]
An Atlas of Extinct Countries, by Gideon Defoe
Gideon Defoe’s breezy book, An Atlas of Extinct Countries, is the kind of nonfiction I […]
Tastes like War, by Grace M. Cho
Trigger warning for disordered eating and brief domestic violence. When we think of war literature, […]
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Looks like I’m not the only one who wants to bring back the Federal Writers […]
The Hidden Palace, by Helene Wecker
The Hidden Palace, by Helene Wecker, is not the book I was expecting. I think […]