Nicola Maye Goldberg’s Nothing Can Hurt You is another novel in a growing subgenre I’ve […]
You Exist Too Much, by Zaina Arafat
The narrator of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the kind of person who […]
The Aosawa Murders, by Riku Onda
There are many layers to Riku Onda’s hypnotic novel, The Aosawa Murders (seamlessly translated by […]
Broken People, by Sam Lansky
One-hit-wonder writer Sam lives a life of twenty-first century of cynicism and mental malaise. He’s […]
Echo on the Bay, by Masatsugu Ono
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, all happy villages are alike and all unhappy villages are unhappy […]
Thin Girls, by Diana Clarke
Trigger warning for depictions of eating disorders and domestic violence. Even if you’ve experienced mental […]
A Burning, by Megha Majumdar
In an unnamed Indian city, a teenaged girl becomes a scapegoat for a terrorist attack. […]
Homeland, by Fernando Aramburu
In 2012, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) announced a ceasefire that, so far, appears to have […]
The Yield, by Tara June Winch
Yield is one of the first words in one of the documents—a dictionary and family […]
These Women, by Ivy Pochoda
There is a moment near the end of These Women, by Ivy Pochoda, when a […]