Sometimes I wish I lived in Europe or Asia or Africa, some place that’s soaked […]
Do Not Sell at Any Price, by Amanda Petrusich
Last spring, I read John Jeremiah Sullivan’s long article for The New York Times Magazine, “The […]
All This Life, by Joshua Mohr
I can remember when my dad first got us online. We had AOL and it […]
The Other Son, by Alexander Söderberg
The Other Son, by Alexander Söderberg, picks up a few months after the series debut, The […]
Half-Resurrection Blues, by Daniel José Older
There aren’t a lot of job opportunities out there for a man who’s half dead. […]
The Underground Girls of Kabul, by Jenny Nordberg
Reading Jenny Nordberg’s The Underground Girls of Kabul was a lot like reading Sophie’s Choice or Uncle Tom’s Cabin. There’s […]
Five Days at Memorial, by Sheri Fink
Anyone who’s attended an introductory college course on philosophy will recall the fiendish ethical puzzles […]
The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George
Bibliotherapy is the semi-serious prescribing of literature—novels, poems, essays, etc.—for emotional ailments. The theory is […]
Rendezvous in Venice, by Philippe Beaussant
Philippe Beaussant’s novella, Rendezvous in Venice, is told in four parts that circle elegantly back into each […]
The Devil’s Only Friend, by Dan Wells
The Devil’s Only Friend, by Dan Wells, is the latest novel in Wells’s series about John […]