Trigger warning for brief domestic violence. Now that I’ve sat down to write a review […]
The Reckless Oath We Made, by Bryn Greenwood
We don’t think a lot about feudalism or fealty much these days. We just don’t […]
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow
Like many other young girls in fiction, January Scaller has been kept under wraps for […]
The Ungrateful Refugee, by Dina Nayeri
Trigger warnings for discussion of rape and suicide. When she was eight years old, Dina […]
The Bellamy Trial, by Frances Noyes Hart
Originally published in 1927, Frances Noyes Hart’s The Bellamy Trial is one of the first […]
The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique Truong
At one point in Monique Truong’s novel, The Sweetest Fruits, one of the narrators tells […]
The Lauras, by Sara Taylor
Trigger warning for sexual assault and transphobic violence. Alex is used to listening to her […]
The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories, by Ayşe Papatka Bucak
The stories in Ayşe Papatka Bucak’s collection, The Trojan War Museum, are the kind that […]
Vanishing in the Haight, by Max Tomlinson
Although the title of Max Tomlinson’s Vanishing in the Haight recalls the height of the […]
Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks
There wasn’t just an influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. There was […]