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 […]
The Book of Speculation, by Erika Swyler
Family secrets have a way of haunting descendants, even when the descendants don’t know the […]
The Liminal War, by Ayize Jama-Everett
Ayize Jama-Everett created a dangerous alternate world of super-powered humans in The Liminal People. We rejoin […]
Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson
You have to marvel at the premise behind S.J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep. […]