Review: Reservoir Bitches
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025 after its debut in 2024, Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda [...]
Review: Cultish
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell explores the linguistic capacities and repercussions of cult group ideologies through a [...]
Review: The Living Infinite
The Living Infinite: A Novel, by Chantel Acevedo, crafts a historical fiction story based on Eulalia, the nineteenth-century Spanish daughter [...]
Review: The Maniac
Three years after Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World debuted as a bestselling translation of historical metafiction [...]
Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Originally published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s fourth and final novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has come to be [...]
Review: Cousin Bette
An exploration of Honoré de Balzac’s feuilleton, or serialized novel Cousin Bette is apt to begin with this quote: “Women [...]
Making good trouble
Fighting incessant wind, I hold my homemade sign high above my head as I yell into the highway, “Show me [...]
Review: The Shipping News
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994, The Shipping News is an enchanting yet unconventional love story of [...]
Review: Gun Island
A contemporary retelling of a Bengali myth, Gun Island is a novel brimming with magical realism while simultaneously fraught with [...]
Review: “The Vegetarian”
Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man [...]
Ferrante’s genial friend
Recently ranked number one on the "The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century" by "The New York Times Book [...]