Once upon a time, there was a journalist with “a weakness for the literature of the supernatural, magic, ghost stories, mysteries.” So begins a short story by 20th-century Italian journalist and writer... Read more »
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it. In 2008, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf published Stieg Larsson’s posthumous The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; this was... Read more »
The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of Green Feather Book Company; Tiya Miles, a history professor at Harvard whose book, “All... Read more »
In Katabasis, two graduate students at a magical version of Cambridge University go to Hell to rescue the soul of their adviser so he can give them a letter of recommendation. Anyone who... Read more »
In the opening chapters of Zimbabwean author Brian Chikwava’s follow-up to his 2009 debut Harare North, the eponymous teen protagonist is given a pendant by an elder of the family, the irrepressible... Read more »
What if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material.... Read more »
The AAPI- and woman-owned Cupid’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore located in the vibrant Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, specializes in the romance genre, and it brims with feminine aesthetics, bookish merchandise, new romance... Read more »
How influential is a name? This is the question underpinning The Names, which opens with Cora taking her newborn son to register his birth. Her abusive husband Gordon wants his son to... Read more »
“The best president in the history of our country,” declared then-president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2019. “I still govern according to his example.” Standing at the foot of a... Read more »