Book review: Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

In Run and Hide, Arun Dwivedi tells the story of his life and how it intertwines with three other men … More

Book review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya Yanagihara’s … More

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis … More

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just … More

Of course, mothers are everywhere, in life and in fiction. There aren’t many novels that don’t have a mother in … More

Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the … More