Trigger warnings for homophobia and bullying. When someone is convicted of a crime, those of […]
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories, by Kelly Link
What is it about folk tales that unsettles us so? If you skip past the […]
Calling Ukraine, by Johannes Lichtman
Trigger warning for mentions of domestic violence. John Turner is a man at loose ends. […]
Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly
The further I get from my teenage years, the harder it is for me to […]
The Bandit Queens, by Parini Shroff
Trigger warnings for domestic violence, attempted rape, and references to rape. Geeta’s life is, paradoxically, […]
The Blue Window, by Suzanne Berne
Early in Suzanne Berne’s troubling family portrait, The Blue Window, Marika tells her daughter that […]
Ghost Music, by An Yu
Years ago, I read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning; Frankl’s thesis has never left […]
Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult, by Kyle McCord
Trigger warning for murder and mass suicide. Tom Duncan is not supposed to be alive. […]
Hotel Splendide, by Ludwig Bemelmans
Before he was the writer and illustrator of the Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans was a […]
The Bass Rock, by Evie Wyld
Trigger warnings for mentions of rape, domestic violence, child abuse, gaslighting, and femicide. The small […]