Laura has always been haunted by her mother’s disappearance in 1972. She was twelve when […]
A Fool’s Kabbalah, by Steve Stern
Trigger warnings for rape and many Nazi atrocities. Gershom Scholem has arrived in Offenbach am […]
The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning
Have you ever seen a flip book? Most people have. If you haven’t, Wikipedia will […]
The Postcard, by Anne Berest
I kind of wish that everyone had a writer in the family who could do […]
All the Broken Places, by John Boyne
Trigger warnings for domestic violence and child abuse. Gretel Fernsby has a secret, one that […]
The Glass Pearls, by Emeric Pressburger
Trigger warning for brief descriptions of medical experimentation and torture committed during the Holocaust. Originally […]
Will, by Jeroen Olyslaegers
Jeroen Olyslaeger’s Will presents a complicated portrait of a man who was caught between the […]
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger
Trigger warning for torture and rape. In a narrative that strongly reminded me of HhHH, […]
A Bookshop in Berlin, by Françoise Frenkel
Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano explains in the preface to A Bookshop in Berlin that […]
The German House, by Annette Hess
Annette Hess’ The German House (expertly translated by Elisabeth Lauffer) is a deeply uncomfortable read. […]