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★★★★☆ Miroslav Penkov’s whimsical debut novel Stork Mountain brings readers to the rural Bulgarian village of Klisura, where an unnamed American narrator has just arrived to live with his grandfather. Compounding the generational and...
★★★★★ Sunjeev Sahota proves that it is possible to craft a quietly political novel, one that tells an essential cultural story not by heavy-handed prose and manifesto-caliber rancor but by the creation of fine...
★★★★☆ “I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird’s egg.”- Thomas Wentworth Higginson Renowned British...
★★★★☆ Jim Harrison’s The Ancient Minstrel is a chaser to life’s intoxicated stumble. Despite almost being able to smell the alcohol vapors from Harrison’s pages, his prose acts as a neutralizer: in a time...
★★☆☆☆ Eastern philosophy has been trickling into the Western consciousness steadily since the 60s and has been gaining popularity ever since. But no matter the part of the globe, when it comes to the...
★★★★☆ Timbuktu is a Western metaphor for the back of beyond, a place so far beyond the pale that no one wants to go there, and nothing of interest ever happens there. While that...
★★★★☆ The earliest mention of what seems to have been smallpox came in 1350 BC. Between that time and 1702 fully one tenth of all humans had been affected in some degree by the...
★★☆☆☆ The first installment of Lian Hearn’s four-volume Tale of Shikanoko series (all of which will be published this summer by FSG), Emperor of the Eight Islands is an ambitious introduction that ultimately falls...
★★★★☆ When we read, what are we reading for? A moment of escape? An adrenaline filled rush? Or is each time we open a book, we are on a quest to find something great?...
