
Book Review: Raised from the Ground: A Novel by José Saramago
February 8, 2026While he has an ear for both the humdrum and the eccentric dissembling pronouncements of the...

Book Review: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
February 4, 2026Like Bolaño, Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile. However, he was born later, in 1975, part...

Book Review: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa
January 28, 2026Ogawa begins by showing her readers the apparently boring, normal face of human society, and then...

Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
January 25, 2026Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...

Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
January 19, 2026Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...

BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAQUE: THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, TOO
January 18, 2026The book begins in the present time, but this is a story that goes back more...

Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
January 6, 2026Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....

Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
January 1, 2026Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...

Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
January 1, 2026The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...

Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
December 31, 2025An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...














