Mieke Eerken’s family is in the unique position of being caught in strangely opposing positions […]
Women Talking, by Miriam Toews
Trigger warning for rape. A foreword at the beginning of Miriam Toews devastating and infuriating novel, Women Talking, explains […]
The Temptation to Be Happy, by Lorenzo Marone
Trigger warning for domestic violence. Lorenzo Marone’s The Temptation to Be Happy (excellently translated by Shaun Whiteside) is masquerading as grump lit*. The […]
The Wolf and the Watchman, by Niklas Natt och Dag
Trigger warning for extreme violence and sexual sadism. About two years ago, I heard someone say that they didn’t like a book […]
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
Trigger warning for rape and suicide. I am continuing my out-of-order dive into Louise Erdrich’s collections of interlinked […]
That Time I Loved You, by Carrianne Leung
Trigger warning for suicide. Years ago, I read Sherwood Anderson’s collection of stories, Winesburg, Ohio. The collection moves from […]
Mother Country, by Irina Reyn
Trigger warning for rape. What should a mother do? Everyone has ideas about this, even […]
The Ghost Notebooks, by Ben Dolnick
Trigger warning for suicide. In upstate New York is the home of an obscure American philosopher who went […]
White Hunger, by Aki Ollikainen
Trigger warning for rape. After reading White Hunger, by Aki Ollikainen and translated with only a […]
City of Ash and Red, by Hye-young Pyun
Trigger warnings for rape and violence to animals. The beginning of Hye-young Pyun’s novel, City of […]