“I wanted an easy job. That was all. A job that wouldn’t burden me with unnecessary stress, that would leave my mind free to think about other things.” […]
Japanese literature
Where the Wild Ladies Are
“The dead are always with us. They just change their forms.” Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda is a collection of interconnected feminist retellings of traditional […]
Japanese literature
Breasts and Eggs
“What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to have a body?” Part One: Summer The novel opens with Natsuko, a struggling writer in […]
French literature
Anomalie
“We are all anomalies in someone else’s story.” Chapter 1: The Flight The novel opens with David, a commercial airline pilot, preparing for a routine flight from Paris […]
English literature
The Midnight Library
“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could […]
English literature
The Mirror and the Light
“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the […]