Book Review: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
September 7, 2025Filled with unsettling images and language, Alois Hotchnig’s newly translated collection is an uncomfortable journey, but...
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 29, 2025The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
August 25, 2025Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
Book Review: Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
August 9, 2025The title refers to the new female embodiment aspired to by the main character Anjali Bose...
Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
August 1, 2025The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
July 11, 2025Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
July 10, 2025A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...




