Horsemen of the Sands, written by Leonid Yuzefovich and translated by Marian Schwartz, contains two novellas. […]
John Woman, by Walter Mosley
The eponymous professor in Walter Mosley’s John Woman is the kind of academic that infuriates people. […]
Magdalena Mountain, by Robert Michael Pyle
Over the course of Robert Michael Pyle’s Magdalena Mountain, three characters undergo metamorphosis. For one, an Erebia […]
Ohio, by Stephen Markley
Trigger warning for rape. Stephen Markley’s Ohio is a novel grows ever more devastating the deeper we […]
The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley
Last year, I read the enchantingly bookish novel Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley, a book […]
Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman
It fascinates me (in a dark sort of way, I’ll admit) when people who have […]
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
What do we do with people who break laws? If they’re in America, they’re thrown […]
Babylon, by Yasmina Reza
There are several variations of this old saying, but that all go something to the […]
The Third Hotel, by Laura van den Berg
Grief makes people act strangely, especially when someone has lost someone very close to them. […]
Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal
One of the things librarians kvetch about (and we kvetch about a lot of things) […]