The Canadian author Miriam Toews (pronounced “Taves”) is a doyenne of the tragicomic. As Alexandra Schwartz noted in a New Yorker profile (March 18, 2019), Toews…
Since challenging Haruki Murakami over his depiction of female characters during a live interview in 2017, Mieko Kawakami has emerged as a literary feminist icon. “Women are no longer content to…
With reproductive rights devastatingly at stake in the US, as the historic Roe vs Wade ruling on abortion looks likely to be overturned, women’s bodies remain a political battleground. Long considered…
In this delightful sequel to her semi-autobiographical novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Elif Batuman returns to Harvard to follow her protagonist Selin…
Louise Kennedy’s debut novel plunges us into Northern Ireland in 1975 — one of the bloodiest years of the Troubles, despite a ceasefire.
Cushla Lavery is a 24-year-old Catholic primary school teacher…
The hum returned to the halls of Olympia last week. After two years of pandemic-related cancellation, the London Book Fair was back “in person” at its usual venue in the west…