

Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Spoiler-Free)
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Well, this seems particularly resonant at this current...
★★★★-4.5
Sep 24, 2025


Review: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Spoiler-Free)
I was perfectly aware that I had only added another question to all the others, but it was a new one, and, in the absurd world in which I...
★★★★★-5
Sep 10, 2025


Review: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Translated by Tanya Leslie
When I went to the kitchen to get some ice, I would look up at the clock hanging above the door: 'only two more hours,' 'only one more...
★★★★★-5
Jul 5, 2025


Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Spoiler-Free)
She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom...
★★★★-4.5
May 26, 2025


Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Spoiler-Free)
I began dressing Helen Clarke in my mind, putting her in a bathing suit on a snow bank, setting her high in the hard branches of a tree...
★★★★-4
May 6, 2025


Review: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to...
★★★★★-5
Feb 23, 2025










