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Indignity by Lea Ypi

Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi

This book started with a social media post. The author, Lea Ypi, saw a photo of her grandmother posted online and going viral in Albania. Some of the comments were offensive and wildly inaccurate, and since her grandmother is now…
Dusk by Robbie Arnott review

Dusk by Robbie Arnott

My review of a beautiful literary novel featuring twins hunting a puma in the Australian highlands.

Milkman by Anna Burns: Review

My thoughts on a Booker Prize winning novel about a teenage girl living in 1970s Belfast and struggling to survive in a claustrophobic community of rumour and suspicion.

The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin

A fascinating window into a difficult life. Richard Garay is a young gay man trying to find his way in Argentina after the death of his parents, navigating homophobia and…

All the Books on One Shelf

How would you approach the task of presenting all of English literature on a single shelf display? Here's how one Serbian bookshop handled it.