The Bowles series continues with Paul's 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of...
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Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles's more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway...
A debut novel that feels a bit like a rupture, not quite like anything that came before...
Berit Ellingsen's beautiful and enigmatic debut novel details a modern day hermit seeking to avoid doing violence...
In Georgian England, you could be hired to live as a hermit on a rich person's land...Right...
"Perry is definitely a writer. His essays are meandering and misshapen, slippery and jagged, they wriggle and...
Remembering the masterful Viennese writer whose works depict a high society of childlike adults living in an...
In the case of America, the accepted standard for broadcasting and spoken English sounds more like a...
On the end of grief, and James Baldwin's classic story of grief at the beginning and end...
Viewed from one perspective, a funeral is a unit of measurement marking the gap between our most...
The time felt right to reread Thomas Mann's novella and watched Lucino Visconti's 1971 film of desire...
J.D. Wilkes's debut novel packs every Southern myth and legend into one epic, rollicking fricasseed Odyssey. Let's...
The "rediscovered classic" of academic life does what great art is supposed to do: immerse us in...
By subverting her narrative multiple times and in many different ways, the memoirist gives a good idea...
A great and complicated story about an unhappy family where every member is unhappy in their own...
Music writing as autobiography, poetry, & survival. Seriously, read "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us"...
David Baillie's second novel is a supernatural mystery set in a surreal crumbling landscape where I live....
Maybe we could call them "Ms.Topias," these novels about suffering women under totalizing systems of patriarchal control....
In times of stress, it's good to return to nourishing comfort food, which for me means Jim...
While getting by in strange times, I read a book of short stories about how average Ukrainians...
