Reviews 10/24

Jul 27, 20204 min read

Jillian by Halle Butler

At first I thought I didn’t have very much to say about this book, which is a problem when I’m meant to be reviewing it. It’s just about...

Jul 22, 20204 min read

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Public intellectual, sociologist, and National Book Award finalist Tressie McMillan Cottom has written a superb book Thick and Other...

Jul 21, 20205 min read

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Moshfegh has perfected what she does, and the curse of becoming a novelist people revere is that they think they understand you.

Jul 16, 20206 min read

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham

“...men are as the time is: to be tender-minded does not become a sword.” - Shakespeare, King Lear For an episodic novel, selectively...

Jul 15, 20207 min read

Self Care by Leigh Stein

When reading this review, you might find that I come off a bit angry. I want to make it clear that I’m not mad at Leigh Stein or her...

Jul 14, 20204 min read

Running by Natalia Sylvester

I can vividly recall the first time I stood up for myself to my mother. It was an inconsequential thing, for most of my childhood my...

Jul 2, 20204 min read

The Orange Grove by Kate Murdoch

To begin with – I adore the Baroque and Rococo era, the Enlightenment, the art, the architecture, the intellectual atmosphere, the whole...

Jul 1, 20204 min read

This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield

Nate McKee is a worrier in a worrying world. We know that, he knows that, but is there really that much he can do about it? Wakefield...

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