How to Dispose of a Toxic Father-in-Law Pushed Buttons Liz put her father-in-law in the lift, pushed the button, and…
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I enjoy fiction that has a vaguely menacing atmosphere. Narratives with the threat of death looming over the characters, and…
In the opening pages of David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return, Michel Adanson, a renowned botanist, is dying.…
In Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava (River Paw Press, 2023), Kalpna Singh-Chitnis writes an urgent tribute for Ukraine, the…
If a dystopia is a place where everyone, or at least someone, lives in abject misery and terror, then most…
No matter how hard she tries, Maddy Reynolds can’t seem to escape the darkest aspects of humanity. After leaving her…
A Swim Across the Open Waters of Mid-Life Vauhini Vara Share article The Hormone Hypothesis by Vauhini Vara I feel…
Photo © Laura MalmivaaraA deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little…
If ever there was a poetry collection you yearn to viscerally sink your teeth into, as if biting into a…
What I love most about the plethora of literary podcasts on air these days is that each podcast feels like…
Some might think of cozy mysteries as edgeless and old-fashioned, but that’s only the case if you want it to…
Growing up as a Javanese daughter, there was one word that was drilled deep into my head by my mother:…
The year I taught at the College of New Jersey, a freshman went missing. It was a large mystery—he had…
Take a Bow, Gas Station Drag Queen Portrait of Drag Queen with a Pig Nose behind the gas station the…
If I could go back to any time in my life, I would choose the years between my girlhood and…
In Javier Fuentes’s touching and tender debut novel, Countries of Origin, the concept of home is complicated and politically fraught.…
In its origins, the word “fabulous” lacked a positive connotation but simply meant “having to do with fables.” I’m no etymologist,…
If you search the web for books about violent women, you are instead met with countless novels about violence against…