The Power of Words: The Great Passage by Shion Miura
The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a novel about a group of editors compiling a dictionary. If you’re looking for a fast-moving plot…
Stories of Racism and Retail Hell: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Race and capitalism in America should be fertile ground for literary fiction. This year’s Black Friday shopping frenzy brought the usual bout…
December Reading Roundup
December has been a good reading month for me. It’s been a good month in general, in fact, and I wanted to…
New Poetry Project Explores Mental Health With Tarot Cards
A Q&A with poet Sascha Aurora Akhtar and illustrator John Alexander Arnold about Only Dying Sparkles, a new project combining poetry, illustration…
WordPress Gutenberg: First Impressions
These are my first impressions of how WordPress Gutenberg works for creating a new post.
Literature and Empathy
As a (very) part-time journalist, I get inundated with press releases, most of which I delete. But one email subject line today caught my…
November Reading Roundup
After a busy few months of travel, we slowed down a bit in November and spent more time just staying in comfortable…
German Literature Month: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
November is German Literature Month, hosted by Lizzy and Caroline! If you’re not familiar with it, it’s an annual celebration of literature…
October Reading Roundup
Did you read any good books in October? I had a decent reading month, starting with a dud but progressing to some…