An Interview with Elizabeth Poliner
By Bert Brandenburg
The novelist talks edges, the Holocaust, and never losing her voice.
Big new titles perfect for the littles.
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are December’s winners.
A Day in “The Hole”: Risk, Loss, and Excess in Downtown Lima
By Daniella Gandolfo
Chaos and commerce thrive in the Peruvian capital.
A close reading of Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain.
Embers of the Hands
By Eleanor Barraclough
The legendary pillagers led charmingly ordinary home lives.
Saints and Liars
By Debórah Dwork
An unsatisfying portrait of little-known WWII heroes.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
The Good Daughters: A Novel
By Brigitte Dale
This tale of 1910s British suffragettes feels uncomfortably timely.
Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
By Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur
Researchers study the paranormal in a spooky Korean lab.
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