When a young boy goes missing at the beginning of Fiona McFarlane’s masterful novel, The […]
The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas
Beatriz was willing to pay a high price to escape her detested aunt and uncle’s […]
The Bass Rock, by Evie Wyld
Trigger warnings for mentions of rape, domestic violence, child abuse, gaslighting, and femicide. The small […]
Outlawed, by Anna North
Although biology and societal convention push Ada into it, she is really not cut out […]
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence, by R.F. Kuang
Learning another language is hard work for most of us, and I’ve always been a […]
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
There’s a line in the movie Jurassic Park, spoken by Dr. Ian Malcom, that I […]
W., by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Trigger warnings for disturbing acts of violence against humans and animals. I’ve always been bothered […]
The City of Incurable Women, by Maud Casey
Maud Casey’s The City of Incurable Women brings me back to an old fascination of […]
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M.R. James
I decided to kick off the spooky season with a century-old collection from M.R. James, […]
The Peculiarities, by David Liss
Thomas Thresher is the sort of person who, if I met him in real life, […]