Category: Book Reviews
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
It’s hard to decide what to read next after you finish something as engrossing as this. If you are looking for that type of reading experience, I cannot recommend Fellowship Point enough.
Read MoreEnd of the World House by Adrienne Celt
End of the World House is a playful, compelling novel about intimacy and free will, about art as a bridge between times and realities.
Read MoreThe Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dahlia Harris
Is it better to choose the hard road of being honest and working for change? Or the easier road of going with the flow and fitting in?
Read MoreWinter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Derek Parker reviews a 2021 National Book Award winner by Elisa Shua Dusapin.
Read MoreThe Fourth Child by Jessica Winter
Winter effectively depicts the push and pull between the ideals that people hold and the realities with which they—and particularly mothers—struggle.
Read MoreMy Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran
Kim Ae-ran’s novel is a compact and intense study of aging, living and loving. Aerum’s illness is not what defines him, just as Mira and Daesu aren’t defined by being young parents.
Read MoreThe Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
This novel is full of complexity, down to each of its characters. I can’t choose a favorite; I was rooting for all of them.
Read MoreThe Fear of Everything: Stories by John McNally
This is a writer whose ability to engage the reader is constantly evolving as he connects the subjective with the universal, the commonplace with the bizarre.
Read MoreUtopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Kristina Murkett reviews David Mitchell’s ninth and latest novel, Utopia Avenue.
Read MoreThe Harpy by Megan Hunter
Mariah Feria reviews Megan Hunter’s second novel, “The Harpy.”
Read MoreLakewood by Megan Giddings
Whether you pick it up now or in the future, you can find something relatable in the story of Lena Johnson, a Black millennial college student who leaves school to enroll in a mysterious research study.
Read MoreThe White Book by Han Kang
Make no mistake: making one’s own fate is not an easy process, just as The White Book is not an easy read, despite its apparent brevity.
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