When you first meet her, you can only pity Marion. She’s in her fifties, plan, […]
Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, by Christopher Meades
Everything about Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, by Christopher Meades, is odd. The polygamy practiced […]
The Man from the Train, by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
A family was murdered in rural Iowa, in 1912, with an axe. While people were […]
Judgment, by David Bergelson
Originally published in Yiddish by David Bergelson in 1929, this newly translated (by Harriet Murov […]
Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Greg
The stories in Wioletta Greg’s Swallowing Mercury (translated by Eliza Marciniak into crisp British English) offer […]
Lightning Men, by Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen’s sequel to Darktown, Lightning Men, made for uncomfortable but illuminating reading on the day of […]
Hame, by Annalena McAfee
A house is a building. An address is a geographic location. But a home is […]
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, by Hannah Tinti
Parent are mysterious creatures, at least from the perspective of their children. I doubt any […]
The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s The Round House is one of the few perfect books I’ve ever read. I […]
The King of Fools, by Frédéric Dard
Jean-Marie Valaise should have listened to another king at the outset of Frédéric Dard’s The King of […]