Any story about two mothers contending for custody of a child is immediately going to […]
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
It finally happened. My book group picked a book that made me want to ugly-cry. […]
A Short History of Women, by Kate Walbert
I am lucky in the way that the women in Kate Walbert’s A Short History of […]
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz, by Maxim Biller
What would the inside of a writer’s mind look like? I’ve had this thought before, […]
The Return of Captain John Emmett, by Elizabeth Speller
Shell shock. Battle fatigue. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Society seems to have only started to take […]
We That Are Left, by Clare Clark
When a loved one dies, their story ends. Their bereaved, however, have to find a […]
The Tsar of Love and Techno, by Anthony Marra
I’ve been waiting for something new from Anthony Marra since 2013, when A Constellation of Vital […]
Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith
At one point in Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith, one of Arkady Renko’s temporary […]
The Vatican Cellars, by André Gide
Why do we behave the way that we do? Psychologists would argue about nature versus […]
A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks
Novels like The Years of Rice and Salt and The Incarnations use an idea that I […]