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Review: Robert Carver’s The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania
Questions I am struggling with as I begin reviewing Robert Carver’s The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania: What is the point of reviewing/eviscerating a little-known (and now out-of-print) book...
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Review: Ismail Kadare’s The Siege
Ismail Kadare’s The Siege is not, strictly speaking, a historical novel, but it does give a broad sense of life, and life during war, during the time of the Ottoman Empire. As with Kadare’s other...
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Reading Journal: Holy hell, George R.R. Martin
Have you noticed that every couple weeks I put up a post berating myself for not posting more often? I sure have! But, you know, it’s getting hot and humid here in Tirana, which takes away my desire to...
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Review: Ismail Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams
Many of Ismail Kadare’s novels take place in a sort of dreamscape, a land between the real world and the world in which myths are taken to be real, in which dreams and stories have a direct influence...
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Review: Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is another entrant in the seemingly endless string of YA dystopian and apocalyptic novels parading their way across bookshelves recently. It’s been a few...
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Classics Club: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
David Copperfield is not the first book by Charles Dickens that I’ve read, so I’m not sure how I maintained my (wildly incorrect) ideas about Dickens’s writing up to this point. Four or five years ago...
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Tina Fey’s Bossypants
New back in the country, suffering from a constant if low-level anxiety about job hunting at a terrible time for job hunting, and trying to catch up on three years of American culture (Bieber to...
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Joe Sacco’s Journalism
One of the pleasures of coming back to the States after a three-year absence has been finding how busy the comics journalist Joe Sacco has been. In 2009 he published Footnotes in Gaza, and this year...
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Review: Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers
The conceit behind Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers is fantastic: the long-awaited Rapture finally comes, decimating lives and families not only because of the sudden disappearance of so many people, but...
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Review: Susan Cain’s Quiet
As the sort of person who regularly cancels on dates, happy hours, even running club, because I’d rather sit on my sofa reading and recovering from the stresses of a day surrounded by people in an...
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