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★★★★☆ There are numerous ways that various countries structure their healthcare system, but Adam Kay tackles the universal attributes of the physician experience. Regardless of geographic region, if you’re a doctor, you’re probably overworked,...
★★☆☆☆ Fear of Description by Daniel Poppick is a collection of modern poetry, mixing prose and metered poems to explore what it’s like to be a young adult in today’s Untied States. Part autobiography,...
★★☆☆☆ An unnecessary return to the world of his excellent 2017 novel Borne, Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts is a prismatic, abstract attempt to both expand and disintegrate the lore of his previous work. “You wouldn’t...
★★★★★ Compiled and edited by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories is an astonishing and academic collection of forty works by significant Italian writers. These authors will be new to most...
★★☆☆☆ Author Marie Robert believes that philosophy’s priceless wisdom doesn’t belong buried away in ancient tomes, but should instead be discussed at bars, offices and dinner parties. In When You Kant Figure It Out,...
★★★★★ How do you understand abuse if it is not named, told, and shown? The telling of abuse in queer relationships is missing in society and history. Carmen Maria Machado breaks this “archival silence”...
★★★☆☆ While on spring break during his senior year, Aiden is just looking for a hookup to kill time and soothe wounds from his past, but when he wakes up next to a dead...
★★★★☆ At first glance, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom’s Palimpsest feels incongruous with its form. A graphic memoir that investigates Sjöblom’s own adoption in Sweden and her biological parents back in South Korea, Palimpsest is an...
★★☆☆☆ Lydia Davis is the flagship writer of the “flash fiction” format: fictional works of extreme brevity, sometimes consisting of just a sentence or two. With a publishing record spanning back to the late...
