Sarah Hannah Gómez asked her colleagues about their bad bookish habits. (Book Riot) Jeffrey Arlo […]
Estoril, by Dejan Tiago-Stanković
Although Dejan Tiago-Stanković’s Estoril is named for the Hotel Palácio Estoril, the plot is all […]
The Charmed Wife, by Olga Grushin
I’m not sure if parents are aware of the power of the stories they read […]
A Demon-Haunted Land, by Monica Black
After World War II, Germany had to rebuilt itself literally, politically and—as we learn in […]
The Book of Collateral Damage, by Sinan Antoon
Authors and philosophers have said it for centuries. You can’t go home again and you […]
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Nothing this cool ever happened to me when I was an undergraduate. Jennifer Ouellette reports […]
Now Before the Dark, by Sam Hooker
When we first met him, Sloot Peril was a loyal subject of the Domnitor (long […]
Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker
Trigger warning for child sexual abuse. One of the scariest things, I think, that can […]
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The latest literary (and art) scandal is the eye-popping statue of Mary Wollstonecraft that was […]
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, by Shahriar Mandanipour
The metaphor of diving into a book like diving into water has never seemed so […]