Book Review: Agency by William Gibson
After watching the TV adaptation of The Peripheral in 2022, I was curious about what was next on William Gibson’s Jackpot trilogy. While I hadn’t read the first book, I…
Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
What if the British government discovered time travel and decided the best use of this world-altering technology was... bureaucracy? That's the delightfully absurd premise of Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, which…
Book Review: Quarterlife by Satya Dyole Byock
I read Satya Doyle Byock’s Quarterlife in a dentist’s waiting room over the course of four appointments for a root canal. Having weathered my own quarter-life crisis when I pivoted…
Book Review: Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
When I first started reading Megan Nolan’s debut novel Acts of Desperation, it didn’t immediately draw me in. In fact, I ended up reading her second novel Ordinary Human Failings…
Book Review: Luster by Raven Leilani
I first heard about Luster by Raven Leilani when it made Obama’s list of favourite books for 2020. At the time, I was reading poetry by Ocean Vuong and had…
Book Review: All Fours by Miranda July
All Fours caught a bit of buzz in 2024 for its premise — a married woman upending her life on a quest for freedom and a sexual awakening. It was…
Book Review: Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
When a young girl dies while playing with other children in a London estate, suspicion is cast on a ten-year-old girl from a reclusive Irish family — the Greens. The…
Book Review: The Pisces by Melissa Broder
The Pisces by Melissa Broder is potentially the wildest book I have ever read. I don’t remember what first drew me to it, only that I read in 2023 as…