Homage to Harjo
I had the privilege of hearing U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo speak and read her poems in January, and that [...]
Book review ‘Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life ‘
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]bigail Thomas's book is like comfort food. Through her spare, elegant prose — at once poetic and conversational — she [...]
Back to Gilead
It's only fitting that Canadian author Margaret Atwood chose the sacrosanct British Museum as a venue to present "The Testaments" [...]
A guy, a girl, and their AI buddy
Ian McEwan’s darkly whimsical 15th novel is “Machines Like Me” (Jonathan Cape, 2019), a speculation on Artificial Intelligence that overflows [...]
Prisoner #174,517
The year 2019 marks the centennial of Turin-born Italian writer Primo Levi’s birth. "If this is a Man," a searing [...]
The Polar Bear Expedition
Over the past decade, author James Carl Nelson has filled a lamentable gap and made a niche for himself writing [...]
Obioma’s colliding cultures
In Chicozie Obioma’s “An Orchestra of Minorities” (Little Brown, 2019), an invasive white culture is portrayed as eating away at [...]
Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome
As a reviewer, I've read a lot of entries in what I might call the “foreign woman living in Italy [...]
Crashing Black Friday
In the short story collection "Friday Black" (Mariner Books, 2018), young American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah delivers a scorching debut [...]
