Living Digging Myself Out This is not an apology post. More of a commitment to myself to give more time to things I value, like blogging regularly.
Reading An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire is an Australian crime novel that throws the crime-writing conventions out of the window. It's more…
Reading The American Way: Stories of Invasion This new short story collection by Comma Press focuses on what the American Way looks like to those at the sharp end…
Reading The Truth About Amritsar Why did British troops massacre hundreds of Indian civilians at Amritsar in 1919? This book explores the whole shocking story.
Reading Digging to America by Anne Tyler: Review In Digging to America, Tyler charts the course of two mismatched families, the hale and hearty, all-American Donaldsons and the quieter, more…
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 4: Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities Why does this short story by Jorge Luis Borges create such power? Maybe it's the human frailty underlying the tale of a tough New…
Reading Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen Five chapters. Five narrators. Five different experiences of being young Greenlanders trying to navigate the complex territory of gender and sexual identity.…
Reading The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti Set in Aotearoa and London some time in the 19th century, Tina Makereti's excellent novel tells the story of a Maori boy…
Reading June 2021 Reading Roundup In my last reading roundup, I was still emerging from winter. Now, it’s been 30+ degrees for weeks, and I can barely…