Unspeakable Acts, edited by Sara Weinman

Unspeakable Acts, edited by Sara Weinman, contains articles from print and online publications on three broad topics that touch on … More

Mother Land, by Leah Franqui

Rachel faces a fate feared by many women around the world. Shortly after Leah Franqui’s novel, Mother Land, opens, her … More

Journalist Mark Bowden pulls articles he has written over the years for newspapers and magazines to create The Case of … More

Trigger warning for brief depictions of child abuse and assault. Aaron Falk does not want to go back to his … More

In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware, turned out to be an excellent choice for quarantine reading. It begins … More

There are many stories out there in fiction of characters who atone for their wrong deeds and redeem themselves. Stories … More

The narrator of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the kind of person who would, in real life, drive … More

There are many layers to Riku Onda’s hypnotic novel, The Aosawa Murders (seamlessly translated by Alison Watts). At the center … More

One-hit-wonder writer Sam lives a life of twenty-first century of cynicism and mental malaise. He’s known happiness in the past, … More

A while back—I’m not sure when exactly—a student asked me why Shakespeare was such a big deal. The student said … More