There are plenty of stories about the American west in which white settlers go a […]
The Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen
The question of what it means to be good is one that we can never […]
The Taste of Empire, by Lizzie Collingham
It’s not unusual for me to have mixed emotions while reading a book. Some books […]
The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle
Pepper may have the worst luck of any man I’ve seen in fiction. Pepper, in […]
Rabbits for Food, by Binnie Kirschenbaum
As I read Binnie Kirschenbaum’s Rabbits for Food, I thought of a post a while […]
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson
Trigger warning for rape. In The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson weaves […]
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman
In the 1970s, after the end of the Laotian Civil War, tens of thousands of […]
The Ash Family, by Molly Dektar
Berie is one of the most emotionally defenseless people I’ve ever read about. She is […]
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is a curious book, at least to me, because of the way […]
The Affairs of the Falcóns, by Melissa Rivero
The title of Melissa Rivero’s affective novel, The Affairs of the Falcóns, sounds like a telenovela. “Affairs” recalls the […]