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★★★★☆ A Tyranny of Petticoats contains 15 action-packed historical short stories featuring ambitious and awesome women. With an eye-catching cover and subtitle (15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, & Other Badass Girls), the reader...
★★★★☆ John Shors’ thoughtful novels are all set in the exotic Far East, underpinned by universal themes of a search for love and the bonds that bring people together. Beneath the Marble Sky featured...
★★★☆☆ If I Could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide seemed to be the perfect book: a romantic story that’s set in England during World War I, that stars a brave, young woman, and is written...
★★★★☆ Charles Dickens is dead; long live Charles Dickens. Stephen Jarvis has channeled the Great Man in his superb retelling of how The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club came to be and the...
★★★☆☆ Dava Sobel is a remarkable writer of scientific biography; she is a serviceable writer of drama. And the Sun Stood Still is a two-act play that captures the meeting between Nicolaus Copernicus and...
★★★★☆ Chto, nachalos’? is the sinister question that hangs in the air in 1953 Russia, before Stalin’s final pogrom meant to answer the Jewish Question. Has it begun? Pochti chto is always the response....
★★★★☆ Jowher Ile’s And After Many Days opens upon an unremarkable day like so many others filled with the humdrum minutiae of quotidian life. The incessant rain had finally stopped, and the older brother,...
★★★★☆ Originally written in 1966, Shusaku Endo’s Silence is a timeless classic of faith and the challenges of remaining true to oneself amidst hardship. Set in Japan in the mid-17th century, Silence tells the...
★★★★★ Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent is an essential new addition to the two-hundred-year-old Russian literary canon and may be the best novel about 20th-century Russia since Boris Pasternak’s 1957 classic Doctor Zhivago....
