Trigger warning for rape. Stephen Markley’s Ohio is a novel grows ever more devastating the deeper we […]
Before She Sleeps, by Bina Shah
Trigger warning for references to rape. The women of Green City have one duty. As […]
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, and self-harm. Mental illness is difficult enough to talk about […]
The Lost for Words Bookshop, by Stephanie Butland
Trigger warning for domestic violence. Lovejoy Cardew is in hiding. She has good reasons for […]
Cult X, by Fuminori Nakamura
Trigger warning for rape. I found Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X (translated by Kalau Almony) infuriating. I […]
Hotel Silence, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Jónas is the kind of man who lives for others. He’s kind. He’s accommodating. But […]
Where the Dead Sit Talking, by Brandon Hobson
Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking covers the summer in the life of Sequoyah, a […]
Tench, by Inge Schilperoord
Why do people commit crimes? Most mystery novels tell us that the most common motives […]
White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lynn Bracht
In 1992, South Korean women began a weekly demonstration that lasted more than twenty years. […]
The Stopping Place, by Helen Slavin
Helen Slavin’s The Stopping Place is a horror novel, at least for women readers. It isn’t […]