Category: Book Review
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
In a spin on Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ Booker-Prize winning author Ian McEwan has created a world in which a…
Evening In Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
Recently, BookBrowse sent me a copy of a short story collection by “one of America’s best kept secrets”: Lucia Berlin’s…
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Ada Limón’s The Carrying introduces a deeply personal collection of poems and is recognized as her boldest work yet. Unlike…
Review: Michael Schmidt’s Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
LET’S start with a confession: I am a historian and I have never read Gilgamesh. I didn’t read it in…
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
“A memoir,” Isabelle Allende once wrote, “is an invitation into someone else’s privacy.” The personal reflections of Saeed Jones in…
Review: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police
IF roses, all roses, suddenly disappeared, would your memory of them fade away as if they had never existed? This…
Review: Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Embroiled in a bloody civil war since 2011, Syria has long been subject to coups, repressive regimes, and state sanctioned…
