Trigger warning for brief domestic violence. Now that I’ve sat down to write a review […]
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (translated by Philip Boehm) walks the fine line between fiction […]
A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, by Ambai
Reading Ambai’s* collection, A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, is like being a […]
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow
Like many other young girls in fiction, January Scaller has been kept under wraps for […]
Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry
Every now and then, I’ll pick up a book and it feels like I’ve gone […]
The Ungrateful Refugee, by Dina Nayeri
Trigger warnings for discussion of rape and suicide. When she was eight years old, Dina […]
The Bellamy Trial, by Frances Noyes Hart
Originally published in 1927, Frances Noyes Hart’s The Bellamy Trial is one of the first […]
The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique Truong
At one point in Monique Truong’s novel, The Sweetest Fruits, one of the narrators tells […]
Cantoras, by Carolina de Robertis
Trigger warnings for rape and suicide. Five women gather on an Atlantic beach in Uruguay […]
Jeeves and the King of Clubs, by Ben Schott
Ben Schott beautifully captures the tone, whimsy, and silliness of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster […]