Literary
Lovers
Lovers is a short novel set in prerevolutionary France (1749) that illuminates a relationship between Balthazar de Créon, a nobleman,…
Raised from the Ground
Editors' choice
Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of…
The Origin of Man
If I had to describe this book in a single word: frustrating. Some literary works that lack linear (or any)…
The Plum Rains and Other Stories
It was a pleasure to read this collection of informative and entertaining short stories set at the end of the…
The Neruda Case
Cayetano Brule is unemployed with a marriage in crisis but still determined to live his own life, no longer being…
Freud’s Sister
In 1938, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa from Vienna with certain individuals of his choice. His four elderly…
Between Love and Honor
The book’s prologue is written much like the opening scene of a movie. A bleak flat landscape, divided by a…
Wilderness
More than thirty years have passed since the close of the Civil War, yet its ghosts and wounds still haunt…
The Malice of Fortune
Editors' choice
In the midst of an upsurge in interest in the Borgias, Ennis’s new historical thriller is, at the very least,…
Christmas at Eagle Pond
In 1940, Donnie Hall is twelve years old. His mother has undergone surgery and needs peace and quiet at home…
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