pon finishing Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison (New Directions, 2025), I immediately went back to page 1 and dove back in. Not because I like to reread books, but because I was in a state of bafflement. This is not an uncommon feeling when reading…
t the beginning of Loop, Annie McDermott’s 2019 English-language translation of Cuaderno ideal (2014), by Mexican author Brenda Lozano, the narrator relates an anecdote about a friend who kicks the pavement after discovering his car got double-parked w…
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
Jane Gardam’s Old Filth is a beautiful and moving portrayal of the remnants of empire, says Stevie Davies
John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
The ultimate photographic record of humankind’s greatest adventure.
