It isn’t enough to translate Chinese literature into English. The translators do as much as […]
Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls
Rachel Ingall’s Mrs. Caliban is an odd novella of a bored housewife who suddenly finds someone […]
The Tea Planter’s Wife, by Dinah Jeffries
Gwen was not at all prepared for life on her new husband’s tea plantation in […]
The Conjoined, by Jen Sookfong Lee
Coming to terms with a parent’s death is difficult enough, but Jen Sookfong Lee threw […]
The Upright Heart, by Julia Ain-Krupa
I think authors write about the Holocaust and readers keep reading about the Holocaust because […]
Everfair, by Nisi Shawl
Eddie Izzard explains colonization in such a way that it highlights the absurdity of people […]
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Several times in Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow, Count Alexander Rostov claims or is declared […]
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
It’s been so long since I read Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses that all I […]
The Saint Louisans, by Steven Clark
Before I read Steven Clark’s The Saint Louisans, most of what I knew about the city […]
Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky
I had previously thought that John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces had the saddest publication […]