Fiona Mozley: Elmet
The latest addition to my website is Fiona Mozley's Elmet. There have been a lot of interesting novels coming out recently from young British women. I recently read Adelle Stripe's…
The latest addition to my website is Fiona Mozley's Elmet. There have been a lot of interesting novels coming out recently from young British women. I recently read Adelle Stripe's…
The latest addition to my website is Nicole Krauss' The History of Love. This is an excellent book about creativity and authorship, about the Holocaust and about who we are.…
The latest addition to my website is Minae Mizumura's 母の遺産 (Inheritance of Mother). This is a feminist novel, about the changing role of women in Japan. We follow three generations…
The latest addition to my website is Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a semi-autobiographical novel with the two main characters, brother and sister Roger and Molly Fawcett, being based on…
Here is another interesting article on that perennial issue of (lack of) women in translation. I am as guilty as the next man on this. I note that, of the…
The latest addition to my website is Adelle Stripe's Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile. This is Stripe's first novel though she has been writing poetry for many years. It…
The latest addition to my website is Janne Teller's Hvis der var krig i Norden (War). This is a story that imagines that it is the Danes that become refugees…
The latest addition to my website is Naomi Alderman's The Power, winner of 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. It was the first science fiction novel to win the Women's Prize.…
The latest addition to my website is Jean Stafford's Boston Adventure. Jean Stafford had a strong reputation when this book was released in 1944 but her reputation seems to have…
The latest addition to my website is Rosario Ferré's El Vuelo del Cisne (Flight of the Swan). The story is about a Russian ballet troupe which is in Puerto Rico…