House Number 12 Block Number 3, by Sana Balagamwala

Trigger warning for references to child abuse. We have an expression about wanting to be a fly on the wall … More

Repentance, by Eloísa Díaz

Joaquín Alzada is a police inspector who has a thinner line to walk than most. Twenty years ago, he had … More

Trigger warning for rape. In the nineteenth century, a woman could be diagnosed with hysteria for an array of symptoms … More

Library conferences rarely take me to beautiful places. The American Library Association, for example, has a reputation for booking places … More

I’ve never had a chance to use this word in earnest, but I’m glad that somewhere I learned the untranslatable … More

Not everything I choose to read is an intellectual puzzle or a heartbreaking exploration of human pain. Sometimes I read … More

Trigger warning for domestic violence. I don’t know what the statistics are on unsolved murders versus solved murders, but I … More

In the waning days of the Yuan Empire, a girl whose original name we never learn takes her dead brother’s … More

I apologize, dear readers, for the sporadic posting over the summer. I just got back home after a long weekend … More

I thought I knew what to expect from Violet Kupersmith’s astounding novel, Build Your House Around My Body. The first … More