There’s nothing wrong with Pavla. Rather, there’s a problem with everyone who meets her in […]
The Upright Heart, by Julia Ain-Krupa
I think authors write about the Holocaust and readers keep reading about the Holocaust because […]
Who Will Catch Us as We Fall, by Iman Verjee
Iman Verjee’s atmospheric Who Will Catch Us as We Fall travels back and forth through the […]
The Tusk that Did the Damage, by Tania James
Though brief, Tania James’s The Tusk that Did the Damage is powerfully affecting. I read it […]
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
It’s been so long since I read Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses that all I […]
The Saint Louisans, by Steven Clark
Before I read Steven Clark’s The Saint Louisans, most of what I knew about the city […]
Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky
I had previously thought that John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces had the saddest publication […]
The Twelve Chairs, by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
Almost ten years after the Russian Revolution, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobryaninov has put his past as […]
Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is a long stream of conscious […]
What is Not Yours is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi
I’ve been a fan of Helen Oyeyemi since I discovered Mr. Fox a couple of years ago. […]