The metaphor of diving into a book like diving into water has never seemed so […]
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, by H.G. Parry
H.G. Parry’s brilliant and amazing novel, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, is the kind […]
Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz
Susan Ryeland thought that she was finished with Alan Conway and publishing after the firm […]
The Dark Library, by Cyrille Martinez
I think that, if you spend enough time around books and libraries, you are exposed […]
Afterlife Crisis, by Randal Graham
There is a developing genre called the New Weird, marked by strange civilizations, hallucinatory writing, […]
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman is this month’s reading group book for The Guardian. […]
Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
When I was an undergraduate, I took a classical literature class in which I read […]
A Choir of Lies, by Alexanda Rowland
Last fall, I had the great pleasure of reading Alexandra Rowland’s A Conspiracy of Truths. […]
The World Doesn’t Require You, by Rion Amilcar Scott
Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, is one of the most […]
Human Matter, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
It’s hard to know quite what to make of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human Matter: A […]