Hero Tojosoa is used to doing things she doesn’t really like. Honestly, it’s a wonder […]
Ex-Libris, by Ross King
Isaac Inchbold, the humble proprietor of Nonsuch books, is an unlikely hero for a novel […]
Melmoth, by Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry’s haunting novel, Melmoth, revolves around two ideas: loneliness and bearing witness. Throughout history, humans […]
The Book of Dirt, by Bram Presser
Unless a family is particularly close knit, garrulous, and practice good document management, the histories […]
Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal
One of the things librarians kvetch about (and we kvetch about a lot of things) […]
Love Letter in Cuneiform, by Tomáš Zmeškal
Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform (translated by Alex Zucker), I’m sorry to report, was a […]
The Wooden King, by Thomas McConnell
I have read books set during World War II written from the perspective of Holocaust […]
The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak
It might seem strange to begin and end a book about a soldier and a […]
Devastation Road, by Jason Hewitt
The period shortly before and after Germany surrendered in 1945 was violently chaotic. Some troops […]
The Last Bell, by Johannes Urzidil
Pushkin Press continues to do sterling work by retranslating and republishing European fiction with Johannes […]