Literary Fiction – A Bookish Type

Another Name for Red, by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

About a year before Amber Blaeser-Wardzala’s novel, Another Name for Red, opens, Middle Sister’s older […]

Trigger warnings for references to rape and sexual coercion. I very rarely read Goodreads reviews […]

It was a delight to re-read Persuasion, by Jane Austen, along with some of the […]

Thanks to a read along on Bluesky, I finally finished Joseph Heller’s madcap satire, Catch-22. […]

When she finishes a new novel, Polish author Irena Rey, summons her translators from around […]

Trigger warning for brief interpersonal violence. One of the things that makes fiction great is […]

Trigger warning for very brief mentions of child sexual abuse. Philippa Malicka’s In Her Defense […]

The Battle of Verdun ended on December 18, 1916. Millions of artillery and gas shells […]

Raja’s mother drives him insane. He spends a lot of Rabih Alameddine’s affecting new novel, […]

Trigger warning for cannibalism and brief depiction of rape. The Nguyen family works very hard […]