Review: ‘The Paying Guests’ by Sarah Waters
It has been five years since Welsh novelist Sarah Waters' last book, but for admirers of her well-crafted Sapphic romps through British history, the wait for "The Paying Guests" has...
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Review: ‘Land of Love and Drowning’ by Tiphanie Yanique
One traditional Ashanti way of beginning a tale is, "I do not mean, I do not really mean that this story is true." The main character of Tiphanie Yanique's first...
Review: ‘Land of Love and Drowning’ by Tiphanie Yanique
One traditional Ashanti way of beginning a tale is, "I do not mean, I do not really mean that this story is true." The main character of Tiphanie Yanique's first...
Review: ‘The Hundred-Year House’ by Rebecca Makkai
"What is the opposite of memory?" asks a character near the end of Rebecca Makkai's second novel, "The Hundred-Year House." "What is the inverse of an echo?" Fate, of course,...
Review: ‘The Hundred-Year House’ by Rebecca Makkai
"What is the opposite of memory?" asks a character near the end of Rebecca Makkai's second novel, "The Hundred-Year House." "What is the inverse of an echo?" Fate, of course,...
Review: ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson
It's not hard to imagine an entire genre springing from Smith Henderson's debut novel, "Fourth of July Creek" — "social work noir," or perhaps "humanitarian hard-boiled." After all, what could...
Review: ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson
It's not hard to imagine an entire genre springing from Smith Henderson's debut novel, "Fourth of July Creek" — "social work noir," or perhaps "humanitarian hard-boiled." After all, what could...
Review: ‘An Untamed State’ by Roxane Gay
"There are three Haitis — the country Americans know and the country Haitians know and the country I thought I knew," says Mireille, the narrator of Roxane Gay's grueling but...
Review: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole
To be a tourist in one's home: It's the very definition of the uncanny. Teju Cole's novella "Every Day Is for the Thief," written and first published in Africa in...
Review: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole
To be a tourist in one's home: It's the very definition of the uncanny. Teju Cole's novella "Every Day Is for the Thief," written and first published in Africa in...