Author Michaël Ferrier’s grandfather is a mystery. All the family knows, a scant two generations […]
Same Same, by Peter Mendelsund
If anyone could work out the precise formula for productive creativity would never have to […]
The Brahmadells, by Jóanes Nielsen
Imagine a triangle with its points in Iceland, Norway, and Scotland, skewed a little closer […]
Insurrecto, by Gina Apostal
Insurrecto, by Gina Apostal, is a strange hybrid of a novel. It encapsulates the Balangiga […]
The Book of Dirt, by Bram Presser
Unless a family is particularly close knit, garrulous, and practice good document management, the histories […]
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
Novels that feature writers as protagonists almost always remind me of the fact that, when […]
The Tale of the Missing Man, by Manzoor Ahtesham
Character can mean either a person imagined up by an author, but also the strengths […]
Sentimental Tales, by Mikhail Zoshchenko
I am a staunch advocate of New Historicism. This school of thought argues that, in […]
Mary B, by Katherine J. Chen
Some readers are going to hate Katherine J. Chen’s Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice. […]
The Merry Spinster, by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
I’ve been chasing the high of reading Angela Carter’s collection, The Bloody Chamber, ever since I […]