Category Archives: literary book review
Review: Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr , Lincoln , and the National Book Award-winning United States . With a new introduction by Camille Paglia “I am … Continue reading
Review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our … Continue reading
Review: Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts … Continue reading
Review: I Met Someone by Bruce Wagner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An emotional thriller by novelist Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone is the story of a fictional Hollywood marriage on the precipice of disaster—and an enthralling meditation on the world in which we live.Bruce Wagner’s I Met Someone is … Continue reading
Review: Superstars by Ann Scott
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a tender and combative portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the 90s — for fans of Virginie Despentes and Gary Indiana. … Continue reading
Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synospsis: The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle … Continue reading
Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc … Continue reading
Review: Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope All his life, exile … Continue reading
Review: Hunger by Choi Jin-Young
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us. “A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the … Continue reading
Review: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always‘ Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen … Continue reading
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