Miaojin, I know this letter will reach you too late. Almost 20 years too late, since you died at the...
"[...] Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman sets forth a different definition of a 'reader’s novel': this is a novel for voracious readers of literary fiction and fiction in translation." Read More
In Fire Year, the 2012 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Jason K. Friedman mines two very distinct veins of American fiction: that of the American Jewish experience, and that of the American South... Read More
Katsushika Hokusai is best known for “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,” a masterpiece of Japanese woodblock prints, ukiyo-e. And even though...
"[I]n his most successful stories, Edwards merges the fanciful with a strong emotional core, which gives those fantastic elements a deeper, metaphorical meaning, particularly when paired with queer characters." Read More
Marco Roth grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but, like all unhappy...
The phrase “too many queens, not enough spotlights” should give a glimpse into the anarchic feel of Michał Witkowski’s debut novel, Lovetown.
The self-proclaimed ‘queens’ of Lovetown, who exclusively refer to each other by feminine names, revel in what they see as the glorious heyday of Polish Communist-era sex, equal measures grim and liberating. Read More
In this collection, love takes on many forms—heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, lesbian—but the infidelity remains constant. Betrayals, of one kind or another are the predominant catalysts for most of the stories, but Levy finds interesting tweaks on the matter. Read More
A secular Jew and a lapsed Christian walk into a bar…. Though it may sound like a joke, Gideon Lewis-Kraus is (mostly) serious in his exploration of faith and purpose, A Sense of Direction. Read More
When Gray Adams, former ballet dancer turned academic, gets stuck turning his dissertation into a book, he does what any...
