Book Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility first came out in 2022. It made a bit of a splash in speculative fiction booklists, appearing alongside others like Babel by R.F. Kuang, How High We…
From Half-Life to Radiant Life: Embracing The Phoenix Process
The most fascinating idea in Elizabeth Lesser’s Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow is the concept of the Phoenix Process. Named after the mythical bird that famously…
Book Review: Girlfriends by Holly Bourne
When Fern's childhood best friend, Jessica, unexpectedly reappears in her life, the reunion is fraught with the heavy, unexplored baggage of their shared adolescence. Jessica was wild and attractive in…
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…