Kathryn Harrison's most recent novel is a finely detailed if somewhat dull historical fiction that considers the development of one man's character in the context of developing scientific technology. In…
The award-winning Swedish novel April Witch is the dark and powerful tale of Desirée, a severely disabled woman abandoned at birth by her mother to spend her entire life in…
"My mother keeps every key to her house on a ring attached to her bag," says seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Thea early in Lynn Freed's beautifully told fifth novel, House of Women .…
Meera Nair's first book, Video , is a collection of ten short stories with a wide range of settings and protagonists. She moves from a small Indian village to Phoenix,…
In the preface to The Black Veil, Moody writes that the "book and my life are written in fits, more like epilepsy than like a narrative," clarifying his description of…
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