The Exiles, by Christina Baker Kline

For almost one hundred years, Great Britain used transportation as the solution to two problems. One problem was the growing … More

The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue

I suspect that many readers and reviewers will focus on the prescience of Emma Donoghue’s deeply affecting novel, The Pull … More

On the surface, the absurd and the surreal seem self-indulgent. Works in this group are highly self-referential. They only make … More

In the history of modern science, the decades that bridge the medieval era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment were a … More

Alina and Liviu are not happy people. This is not surprising, given that most people in 1970s Romania are unhappy. … More

Trigger warning for rape. It feels like a century since I started reading The Eighth Life, by Nino Haratishwili (and … More

Asako Serizawa’s Inheritors tells the story of a Japanese family caught up in history and questions of identity from the … More

The Enlightenment, but make it magicians. That little phrase made frequent appearances in my brain as I read H.G. Parry’s … More

In 2012, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) announced a ceasefire that, so far, appears to have finally ended decades of violent … More

Yield is one of the first words in one of the documents—a dictionary and family history written by Albert Gondiwindi—that … More