Trigger warning for brief description of rape and mutilation. I always read historical fiction about […]
33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen
Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann tells a connected story of surviving—or not surviving—World War II […]
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden
It’s been just over 100 years since the end of World War I. The last […]
Will, by Jeroen Olyslaegers
Jeroen Olyslaeger’s Will presents a complicated portrait of a man who was caught between the […]
Crossings, by Alex Landragin
Alex Landragin’s Crossings is the kind of book that I’ve been waiting for, but not […]
Journeys, by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig […]
The Ventriloquists, by E.R. Ramzipoor
There were some moments in E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists when I just had to roll […]
The Woman Who Fed the Dogs, by Kristien Hemmerechts
Trigger warning for rape and domestic abuse. Odette tells us at the beginning of Kristien […]
Tomorrow, by Damian Dibben
One of the firmest rules I follow in my reading is that I do not […]