Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days was published one year before Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, but […]
Motherland, by Jo McMillan
Eleanor Mitchell raised her daughter to believe in the international struggle for workers’ rights. She […]
The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George
Bibliotherapy is the semi-serious prescribing of literature—novels, poems, essays, etc.—for emotional ailments. The theory is […]
Rendezvous in Venice, by Philippe Beaussant
Philippe Beaussant’s novella, Rendezvous in Venice, is told in four parts that circle elegantly back into each […]
Jacob the Liar, by Jurek Becker
Is there such a thing as a good lie? Whenever this question comes up, I […]
The Book of Speculation, by Erika Swyler
Family secrets have a way of haunting descendants, even when the descendants don’t know the […]
The Rent Collector, by Camron Wright
Camron Wright’s uneven tale of redemption and education, The Rent Collector, is set in the very […]
The Meursault Investigation, by Kamel Daoud
“Mama’s still alive today” (Chapter I*). So begins Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, the long-needed Arab version […]
Girl at War, by Sara Nović
Ana Jurić has spent the last ten years not talking about what happened to her […]
The Girl in the Road, by Monica Byrne
When I first learned how to analyze stories, my teacher taught us Gustav Freytag’s Pyramid. […]