"Walking away from my engagement meant exchanging the delights of a bride for the embarrassment of a deserter."

Review of Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Intimacies is richly layered and full of interesting ideas about the potentially dubious power of institutions.

Review of Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen

An insightful, absorbing snapshot into a lonely life in a dead-end town in Northern Ireland. The author’s dark humor betrays, if not a love of life, at least an endorsement of making the most of it.

Interview with
Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Author of Everything Belongs to Us

Review of
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

An ambitious, character-driven book that spans decades from the 1940s to the 90s and grapples with race and the transgender experience.

Beach Reads

A great book is essential to your perfect getaway.