Reviews
The Dangers of a Single Story
Sarah Linville reviews Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, 2025).
Fatalism and Family Life
Zoë Kaufmann reviews Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside (New Directions, 2025)
Illustrated Breadcrumbs
Brody Eldridge reviews Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Scribner, 2025).
What are we doing here?
Brody Eldridge reviews Never Flinch by Stephen King (Scribner, 2025).
Cherry Blossoms, Pro Wrestling, and Stonewall Jackson: The American Dream?
Sarah Selden Linville reviews The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, 2025).
Katabasis: Impossible to Pronounce, Enjoyable to Read
Elizabeth Stice reviews Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, 2025).
Murky Ecstasy
Geoffrey Reiter reviews Treatises on Dust by Timothy Jarvis (Swan River Press, 2024)
Book Club: “Joy in the Morning” by PG Wodehouse
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Can We Still Believe in Goodness?
Sarah Selden reviews The Lime Kiln and Other Enchanted Spaces by Geoffrey Reiter (Hippocampus Press, 2025)
Of Mice and Nuns
Sarah Selden reviews Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Sceptre, 2024)
Self-Reliance, Revisited
Grace Mackey reviews The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books, 2024)
Read Dostoevsky With Us: Book Club for “The Idiot”
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Out of the Shadows
Sarah Selden reviews The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Sarah Selden reviews The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
For the Grieving Sentimentalist: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo”
Brody Eldridge reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)
Reimagining, Restructuring, and Remembering Society
Samantha Wilber reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)
Good Reader, Bad Reader: A Book for Both?
Sarah Selden reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, 2024)
Cormac McCarthy’s Walking Dead
Brody Eldridge reviews Manu Larcenet’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road (Abrams ComicArts, 2024)