When Hervé Le Tellier bought a home in La Paillette, a hamlet in rural southeastern […]
Feast, by Catherine Kurtz
Trigger warning for rape, racism. At the outset of Catherine Kurtz’s troubling novel, Feast, Minha […]
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Thanks to a read along on Bluesky, I finally finished Joseph Heller’s madcap satire, Catch-22. […]
The Extinction of Irena Rey, by Jennifer Croft
When she finishes a new novel, Polish author Irena Rey, summons her translators from around […]
Waiting on a Friend, by Natalie Adler
There is no getting used to death, even in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. […]
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke
Trigger warning for brief interpersonal violence. One of the things that makes fiction great is […]
Honey, by Imani Thompson
The first one wasn’t meant to be fatal. The second was maybe an accident. The […]
This House Will Feed, by Maria Tureaud
Maggie O’Shaughnessy has lost everything: her family, her home, her lover. She almost lost her […]
We Dance Upon Demons, by Vaishnavi Patel
Nisha is struggling. She’s been struggling for a long time, but the social and political […]