Michèle Audin’s One Hundred Twenty-One Days (translated by Christiana Hills) is the first Oulipo novel I’ve ever read, […]
The Book Thieves, by Anders Rydell
In The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a […]
Swimming Lessons, by Claire Fuller
Relationships are a mystery to outsiders. Perhaps it’s not so surprising after all that so […]
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell, by Nadia Hashimi
As depicted by Nadia Hashimi in The Pearl that Broke Its Shell, there is only one […]
The Girl in Green, by Derek B. Miller
Like divine revelation, quests aren’t usually something we see in this day and age. That […]
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a reputation. Everyone someone asked what I was reading this week, […]
Mãn, by Kim Thúy
There are some writers who make me think of the way painters work more than anything […]
A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster’s 1924 classic, A Passage to India, is a bitingly caustic look at race relations […]
The Book Collector, by Alice Thompson
I’m very glad I follow Australian reader Sophie Carlon. Without her recommendation, I would have […]
The Small Backs of Children, by Lidia Yuknavitch
Every now and then, I run across a book that I can’t explain to other […]