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Zelu is a frustrated writer, annoyed by her self-important students and the adjunct teaching load that prevents her from completing her own literary novel. When an outburst in the classroom results in...
Read ReviewNnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author includes an example of a type of metafiction known as an 'embedded narrative'—in other words, the novel contains another novel (in this case a futuristic...
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"Sometimes war can set a woman free," declares Sofia Bottom's larger-than-life intelligentsia mother Clara. The fictional country of Elysia reveres the arts and has evolved beyond all that is ...
Read ReviewNovelist, essayist, and contributor to NPR's This American Life, Heather O'Neill is a literary powerhouse in Canada, where she was born and raised and lives today. Her debut novel Lullabies for ...
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Seven-year-old Ellie, living in Tehran in the 1950s, has just lost her father. She and her single mother are forced to leave their lavish life behind and move to a tiny home downtown. Grieving her ...
Read ReviewIn the southwest of Iran lies a city called Abadan, over five hundred miles from the country's capital of Tehran, with a population of a little over 200,000. Despite its relatively quiet presence,...
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John Ferguson is a principled man. But when, in 1843, those principles drive him to break from the established Church of Scotland, the evangelical minister soon finds himself a poor man, too. Stripped...
Read ReviewIn Clear, the third novel from Carys Davies, an impoverished presbyterian minister reluctantly takes part in the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions that took place in the north of ...
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Permit me to break the fourth wall. Like any good reviewer, I aim to analyze a book dispassionately, on its own terms. But personally, the true sign of a powerful work of fiction is if I dream about ...
Read ReviewThe Dangers of Roundup Ready Seeds
In Louise Erdrich's novel The Mighty Red, a rural community in North Dakota grapples with common problems facing agricultural centers—the bankruptcy of small farms and resulting consolidation ...
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In the aftermath of the 1860 presidential election, the divided United States began to collapse as South Carolina seceded from the Union, followed by another six Southern states. Among the countless ...
Read ReviewAs Erik Larson recounts in The Demon of Unrest, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter, off the coast of South Carolina, at 4:30 a.m. on April 12th, 1861. Thirty-six hours...
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Going Home
by Tom Lamont
Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.
The Secret History of the Rape Kit
by Pagan Kennedy
The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
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Babylonia
by Costanza Casati
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history. When kings fall, queens rise.
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The story of of a man whose son collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida.
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