Trigger warning for suicide. Years ago, I read Sherwood Anderson’s collection of stories, Winesburg, Ohio. The collection moves from […]
Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson
The publisher’s blurb for Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, makes this book sound a lot more […]
Mother Country, by Irina Reyn
Trigger warning for rape. What should a mother do? Everyone has ideas about this, even […]
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, by Anissa Gray
In Anissa Gray’s devastating novel, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, the fact that the matriarch of the family and […]
The Salt of the Earth, by Józef Wittlin
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a strange creature. It spanned a huge swath of central and […]
Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, by Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken has lurked on the edge of my bookish awareness for a while, praised […]
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
Graham Greene’s masterly novel, The Quiet American, is the kind of novel that I find impossible not […]
Mothers, by Chris Power
The short stories in Chris Power’s collection, Mothers, range across the world, from Sweden to Mexico. […]
The Far Field, by Madhuri Vijay
The last place a grieving young woman should go is to a low-level war zone. […]
Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal
It is a truth universally acknowledged that some stories are so good that no one […]