Literary
Grace
In a twist on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Natashia Deón spins a novel in which the young mother fleeing slavery dies,…
The Whale: A Love Story
What many now regard as one of American literature’s greatest achievements was originally a critical and commercial failure, leading to…
An Unrestored Woman and Other Stories
This was the first time I have encountered stories relating to the period of the Partition between India and Pakistan…
The Bickford Fuse
As the Great Patriotic War comes to an uneasy close in 1945, a bizarre assortment of people begin epic journeys…
Homegoing
In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One…
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
In 1918, the world is in turmoil. WWI wreaks its havoc in Europe, and the Spanish flu is devastating communities…
Villa Triste
Triste. French for “sad.” And that’s the mood of this short novel from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. Villa Triste…
Before We Visit the Goddess
“Without education,” Sabitri writes to Tara, the granddaughter she has never met, “a woman has little chance of standing on…
Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
Editors' choice
In 1889, the painter Vincent Van Gogh is expelled from the Provençal town of Arles after being caught walking through…
Napoleon’s Last Island
The story of Napoleon’s last years on Saint Helena is more legend than history to anyone who has studied history…
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