Out of Darkness, Shining Light, by Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah’s novel, Out of Darkness, Shining Light, is based on the true story of David Livingstone‘s last (posthumous) journey. … More

The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique Truong

At one point in Monique Truong’s novel, The Sweetest Fruits, one of the narrators tells her interviewer that it’s not … More

Trigger warnings for rape and suicide. Five women gather on an Atlantic beach in Uruguay at the beginning of Cantoras, … More

I still believe that one of the world’s greatest marketing campaigns was the one that got people to settle in … More

Ben Schott beautifully captures the tone, whimsy, and silliness of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories in Jeeves and the … More

So many works of historical fiction revolve around the limited roles women had for, well, most of recorded history. In … More

There were some moments in E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists when I just had to roll my eyes. Some of the … More

Harriet Gordon, who is in Singapore to start her life over, has just started a job helping an old man … More

Trigger warning for sexual assault and transphobic violence. Alex is used to listening to her parents fighting with each other. … More

The stories in Ayşe Papatka Bucak’s collection, The Trojan War Museum, are the kind that force readers to pay close … More