Alan Hollinghurst's novel Our Evenings is the fictional autobiography of Dave Win, a British actor who's in his early 70s as the novel opens. He's just learned about the death of Mark ...
Read ReviewLeoš Janáček (pronounced lay-osh YAH-NAAH-check) is widely considered the greatest Czech composer of the early twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his opera The Cunning Little...
Read ArticleFollowing the success of her debut novel, If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio's latest book is the quasi-horror thriller novella Graveyard Shift. Set in an unspecified US college town across a single ...
Read ReviewEach of the five protagonists in M. L. Rio's novella Graveyard Shift struggles, in some form, with lack of sleep. Insomnia, which is a persistent difficulty in getting adequate quality sleep, can have...
Read ArticleThe Kim sisters—Minah, Sarah, and Esther—have just learned their father is dying of cancer. Minah, the eldest, is a high-functioning New York City lawyer determined to start a family. ...
Read ReviewMaureen Sun's The Sisters K was published by Los Angeles-based independent publisher Unnamed Press. Founded in 2014 by Chris Heiser and Olivia Taylor Smith, Unnamed Press was intended to be a ...
Read ArticleFrom an infant's first attempts to connect with the world around them to the final words shared with the dying, human life and language are intimately intertwined. Linguist Julie Sedivy's new book, ...
Read ReviewWriters' Experiences with Aphasia
In Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love, a combination of popular science and memoir, linguist Julie Sedivy shares that one of her worst fears is that an illness or injury will cause her to develop ...
Read ArticleAt the start of Maame Blue's The Rest of You, Whitney Appiah, a Ghanaian Londoner, is ringing in her thirtieth birthday at a bar with her best friend and roommate, Chantelle. However, she is also ...
Read ReviewThe Ghanaian Tradition of Day Names
There are many different tribes and cultural influences in Ghana; therefore, Ghanaian culture shouldn't be assumed to be a monolith. However, the tradition of naming children after the day they ...
Read ArticleThe premise of The Book of George, the witty, highly entertaining new novel from Kate Greathead, is that every reader knows a George. Well-heeled and well-connected, he's a young man with all of life'...
Read ReviewIn The Book of George, Kate Greathead covers the life of her eponymous hero in 14 chapters depicting key moments from his first 40 years. In doing so, she draws on elements of the picaresque, an ...
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