Ijeoma is a plant that was forced to grow a certain way. Growing up in […]
The Underground, by Hamid Ismailov
And now for the second book this week that puzzled me so much that I […]
A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks
Novels like The Years of Rice and Salt and The Incarnations use an idea that I […]
Undermajordomo Minor, by Patrick deWitt
A few months ago, I watched Grand Budapest Hotel. I was enchanted. I was amused. And […]
1914: Goodbye to All That, edited by Lavinia Greenlaw
1914: Goodbye to All That was commissioned by 14-18 NOW, World War I Centenary Art […]
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty’s searingly caustic and smart satire, The Sellout, begins with the unnamed narrator about to […]
The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
There’s a line from the movie Juno that kept floating through my head as I read […]
All That Followed, by Gabriel Urza
Sometimes I wish I lived in Europe or Asia or Africa, some place that’s soaked […]
All This Life, by Joshua Mohr
I can remember when my dad first got us online. We had AOL and it […]
A God in Every Stone, by Kamila Shamsie
When the world is at war or a country is claiming its independence from an […]