World War II did not end on V-E and V-J Days. Hostilities ceased on those […]
Beowulf, by Bryher
So much of fiction centers on a single protagonist, maybe two, and a relatively small […]
The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles
Being a teenager sucks. I certainly wasn’t fond of it. Like Lily, one of the […]
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger
Trigger warning for torture and rape. In a narrative that strongly reminded me of HhHH, […]
The Library of Legends, by Janie Chang
After a lifetime of hiding under an assumed name, Hu Lian’s life has turned around […]
Green for Danger, by Christianna Brand
As if I needed proof of what I wrote yesterday about how readers can react […]
Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
Nathaniel’s mother, Rose, a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. As he narrates […]
How We Disappeared, by Jing-Jing Lee
Trigger warning for rape. The exact number of “comfort women“—women who were enslaved by the […]
A Bookshop in Berlin, by Françoise Frenkel
Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano explains in the preface to A Bookshop in Berlin that […]
The Ventriloquists, by E.R. Ramzipoor
There were some moments in E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists when I just had to roll […]