Generally speaking, home is the place where we belong. Our family are there. Our memories […]
Nineveh, by Henrietta Rose-Innes
I never read Hal Herzog’s Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, but the […]
Odessa Stories, by Isaac Babel
Russian literature has (deservedly) a reputation for being utterly depressing and heavy—which is why it’s […]
Mr Splitfoot, by Samantha Hunt
Belief is a powerful thing. It can also be a dangerous thing, as we learn […]
A House Without Windows, by Nadia Hashimi
Nadia Hashimi’s A House Without Windows is the kind of book tailor-made to make feminist Westerners […]
The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan
Originally published in 1991, Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife gives us (well, at least me) […]
Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood
One of the joys of reading the Hogarth Shakespeare series is seeing how different authors […]
The Angel of History, by Rabih Alameddine
Jacob is an angry, lonely man who has lost his ability to write poetry. Oh, […]
The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien
There are people who deserve second changes and others who very much do not. Edna […]
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, by Yu Hua
Set between the late 1940s and early 1970s, Yu Hua’s Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (translated […]