Russia – A Bookish Type

Mother Doll, by Katya Apekina

Zhenia is content with her life as Katya Apekina’s emotionally stunning novel, Mother Doll, opens. […]

Trigger warnings for descriptions of torture and frequent mentions of rape. In the coda of […]

Great characters never die. They invite us to retell and reimagine their stories for all […]

Book Review / Horror Posted on: January 8, 2022

I first learned about the Road of Bones by watching The Long Way Round, in […]

Why did no one tell me Alexander Pushkin was funny? Before I read this collection, […]

Book Review / Metafiction Posted on: January 7, 2021

When my dad passed away in 2019, my sister, my mother, and I spent hours […]

There are certain periods of history that, when I read fiction or primary source accounts […]

I supposed that most women will come off the worse when compared to Catherine the […]

What better book to accompany me on the twenty-hour round trip from my home to […]

My favorite kind of family memoir is one that is as much about food as […]