In The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a […]
Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
In physics, the “arrow of time” is a metaphor for time and entropy first coined […]
The Guineveres, by Sarah Domet
The girls in Sarah Domet’s The Guineveres have so much going against them. They’ve been abandoned […]
This House is Mine, by Dörte Hansen
Generally speaking, home is the place where we belong. Our family are there. Our memories […]
The Chosen Ones, by Steven Sem-Sandberg
Steven Sem-Sandberg’s The Chosen Ones (translated by Anna Paterson) is a difficult book to read. First, there […]
Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
Based around the real sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, Ruta Sepetys’s novel, Salt to the Sea, […]
The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan
Originally published in 1991, Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife gives us (well, at least me) […]
Where my critics at?
While reading Amy Hungerford’s article “On Refusing to Read,” which described how curiously blind literary […]
The Girl from Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith
Cenzo Vianello has been sitting out the war, fishing his family’s waters in the lagoons […]
The Midwife, by Katja Kettu
Finnish Lapland is a brutal place. It’s above the Arctic Circle. It’s remote. Until the […]