Detective Frank Mackey has been happily (more or less) avoiding his past for more than […]
The Archive of Alternate Endings, by Lindsey Drager
I don’t know if other readers do this, but I often create a mental tapestry […]
The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle
Pepper may have the worst luck of any man I’ve seen in fiction. Pepper, in […]
Rabbits for Food, by Binnie Kirschenbaum
As I read Binnie Kirschenbaum’s Rabbits for Food, I thought of a post a while […]
Walking on the Ceiling, by Ays̨egül Savas̨
As the title hints, a lot of Ays̨egül Savas̨’s Walking on the Ceiling takes place […]
The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham
Kitty Fane is a terrible judge of character. For most of her life, she believes […]
Princess Bari, by Hwang Sok-yong
Trigger warning for rape. For a girl born in North Korea, the protagonist of Princess […]
The Ash Family, by Molly Dektar
Berie is one of the most emotionally defenseless people I’ve ever read about. She is […]
A People’s History of Heaven, by Mathangi Subramanian
In the 2010s, another movement to clear (read: demolish) slums in and around Bangalore, India. […]
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is a curious book, at least to me, because of the way […]