Literary
The Zenith
Author Duong Thu Huong’s sweeping book The Zenith opens in 1969 with Ho Chi Minh a temple prisoner of his…
The Rhythm of Memory
Salome de Ribiero’s fairytale romance with her husband, poet-turned-movie star Octavio Ribiero, comes to a terrifying halt when she is…
My Last Empress
Samuel Pickens is a precocious young man at the beginning of this novel that spans life in Connecticut and China…
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
For a landlord, Ximen Nao wasn’t such a bad man. He was kind to his tenants, his wife, his concubine,…
The Tenants of the Hôtel Biron
Through a fictitious collection of manuscripts and letters, we learn of the famous artists that lived in Paris’s Hôtel Biron…
Sweet Tooth
For many members of the HNS, the early 1970s may not seem to be very historical. But Ian McEwan’s new…
The House of Jasmine
This book is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Sadat era and is essentially a snapshot of Egyptian life and…
The Soledad Crucifixion
What novel that opens with the voluntary Good Friday crucifixion of a Catholic priest in the mountains of northern New…
Cervantes Street
This novel takes the biography of the creator of Don Quixote as the starting point for a tale of love…
Beggar’s Feast
“Beggar at the feast! Master of the dance!” The chorus from the musical Les Misérables will ring in your ears…
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