Reviews and Comments

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier

Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood

Burial rites by Hannah Kent

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this story evokes a dramatic existence in a distant tme and place. Here the author …

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, …

Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway, Larry W. Phillips

Come Closer by Sara Gran

Astonishly addictive, genuinely frightening

Amanda loves her life, her converted loft apartment and her job as an architect. On the …

The turn of the screw by David Bromwich

Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney

Rubbish. A quarter of it is love scenes. Very steamy like fifty shades of grey

Our Wives under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient …

Gyo by Junji Ito

The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene... …

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect …

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Bright dead things by Ada Limón

"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …