Tom McAllister’s How to Be Safe tackles one of the biggest flash points in American politics: […]
We Are All Completely Fine, by Daryl Gregory
Most adventure stories, of any stripe, focus on the lead up to, the journey to, […]
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence, by Michael Marshall Smith
Eleven-year-old Hannah is not having a good summer. Her parents are getting divorced and she […]
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The more historical fiction I read—especially when it’s paired with a contemporary narrative, like a […]
Mother India, by Tova Reich
It would be tempting to read Tova Reich’s Mother India while looking for who to blame […]
The Witch Elm, by Tana French
About a third of the way through The Witch Elm, by Tana French, I started to […]
The Waiter, by Matias Faldbakken
The Hills, a very old restaurant in Oslo, Norway, is an institution. The walls are […]
In the Night Wood, by Dale Bailey
The house that the Haydens inherit at the start of Dale Bailey’s chilling In the Night […]
The Dark Blue Overcoat and Other Stories from the North, edited by Sjón
The stories in The Dark Blue Overcoat are written by authors from every Scandinavian country, including […]
A Double Life, by Flynn Berry
Flynn Berry’s A Double Life is based on the unsolved mystery of Lord Lucan, who was accused […]