Trigger warning for child abuse. Throughout Avni Doshi’s unsettling novel, Burnt Sugar, the protagonist is […]
The Last Garden in England, by Julia Kelly
In Julia Kelly’s novel, The Last Garden in England, the gardens at Highbury House serve […]
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
I think my first experience with a story that made the skin on my neck […]
The Birdwoman’s Palate, by Laksmi Pamuntjak
One of the great things about reading—and one of the big reasons I read—is that […]
The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Word nerds might already be familiar with the term mountweazel. A mountweazel is a fake […]
The Book of Collateral Damage, by Sinan Antoon
Authors and philosophers have said it for centuries. You can’t go home again and you […]
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, by Shahriar Mandanipour
The metaphor of diving into a book like diving into water has never seemed so […]
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, by George Orwell
George Comstock is one of the most infuriating characters I’ve ever encountered in fiction (and […]
The Museum of Forgotten Memories, by Anstey Harris
Trigger warning for discussion of suicide. It’s not uncommon for people to travel after a […]
The Dark Library, by Cyrille Martinez
I think that, if you spend enough time around books and libraries, you are exposed […]