Why Do Women Want?: Edith Wharton’s Present Tense
Edith Wharton. Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Co...
Books
Dawn Kasper’s Death Scenes
DAWN KASPER, “MICHELLE FRANCO” (2003), ANNA HELWING GALLERY, CHICAGO ART FAIR...
Confusion, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell
To kick off #NovellasInNovember, here’s a classic masterpiece from Stefan Zwe...
A House is Built, by M Barnard Eldershaw
Cultural warning: quotations from this novel include racist colonial assumpti...
Moon Sugar, by Angela Meyer
Moon Sugar is the latest release from Melbourne author Angela Meyer. Followi...
Staff Picks: Scary Stories
Halloween decorations, Black Bull, Wetherby, West Yorkshire. Mtaylor848, CC B...
Genres for War: Writers in Ukraine on Literature
Olga Kryazhich’s destroyed apartment. Photograph courtesy of Kryazhich. I was...
Limberlost, by Robbie Arnott
An aggrieved Tweet piqued my interest the other day. The tweeter, whose user...
Everything But Money: On Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn. Photograph courtesy of Eli Dapolonia. Katherine Dunn didn’t r...
Acte Gratuit
Illustration by Na Kim. 18/04/2022, 14:28, CT Angiogram renal & abdominal No ...
The Raptures, by Jan Carson
I’d just borrowed Jan Carson’s The Raptures from the library when Cathy at 74...
The Vow: A Requiem for The Fifties, by Jiří Kratochv...
I haven’t read much Czech literature, only the usual Kafkas and Josef Skvorec...
New York Film Festival Dispatch: Cold War Movies
“We are a nation whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.” From Dia...
When You Wake and Find Me Gone, by Maureen McCarthy
When You Wake and Find Me Gone (2002) is an oldie from the TBR. I bought it ...
Notes from Iran
Iranian protesters on Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran. Licensed under CC0 4.0. ...
Yodeling into a Canyon: A Conversation with Nancy Le...
Courtesy of Nancy Lemann. I first read Nancy Lemann’s novel Lives of the Sain...
Education
Don’t Forget to Breathe
By James Prescott-Kerr When you’re abroad and know you have limited time in ...
