Mahmoud Ezzedine, a talented physician to the Ottoman sultan, did not want to be included […]
Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin
My quest to read books in as many places and times as possible has brought […]
Nicked, by M.T. Anderson
It begins with a dream. Brother Nicephorus dreams that St. Nicholas of Myra visits him […]
The Hunger We Pass Down, by Jen Sookfong Lee
Trigger warnings for rape, child sexual abuse, forced prostitution, other forms of abuse, and suicide. […]
The Return of Moriarty, by Jack Anderson
I was surprised to learn, after I read Jack Anderson’s riveting new novel The Return […]
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine
Raja’s mother drives him insane. He spends a lot of Rabih Alameddine’s affecting new novel, […]
The Women, by Kristin Hannah
When her family receives word that her brother has been killed in action in Vietnam, […]
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix
Fern feels utterly powerless when her parents send her to rural Florida after they discover […]
The Women’s Courtyard, by Khadija Mastur
Originally published in 1962, Khadija takes us into the cloistered world of a family on […]
Darkenbloom, by Eva Menasse
Somewhere in Austria’s Burgenland, the territory pressed hard up against the border with Hungary, the town […]