Sarah Perry’s haunting novel, Melmoth, revolves around two ideas: loneliness and bearing witness. Throughout history, humans […]
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The more historical fiction I read—especially when it’s paired with a contemporary narrative, like a […]
Mother India, by Tova Reich
It would be tempting to read Tova Reich’s Mother India while looking for who to blame […]
The Witch Elm, by Tana French
About a third of the way through The Witch Elm, by Tana French, I started to […]
The Waiter, by Matias Faldbakken
The Hills, a very old restaurant in Oslo, Norway, is an institution. The walls are […]
The Dark Blue Overcoat and Other Stories from the North, edited by Sjón
The stories in The Dark Blue Overcoat are written by authors from every Scandinavian country, including […]
Gone So Long, by Andre Dubus III
Some actions are unforgivable. Though our Western culture is steeped in a religion that exhorts […]
Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
These days, most of us live lives almost completely divorced from the hard, unpredictable work […]
An Untouched House, by Willem Frederik Hermans
When we read about history in non-fiction, especially in textbooks, we tend to read about […]
Judge Walden: Back in Session, by Peter Murphy
To paraphrase Oliver Wilde, the law is rarely pure and never simple. This is certainly […]