Book Review: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
I first came across Irish writer Sally Rooney through her second novel Normal People. It was a big hit on all the Amazon book lists when it was first released…
Book Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
I just finished reading ‘The Three Body Problem’ by Chinese author Liu Cixin. It’s the first of a sci-fi trilogy set in China, spanning several decades. It begins in 1960s…
Book Review: Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
Trigger warning: any number of things When I first started reading Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller, I had to put it away more than once. I even contemplated abandoning…
Book Review: Jenifer Lewis’s Memoir and K-Dramas to Watch
I started the year off by reading Jenifer Lewis’s memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood. I first became aware of it in 2020, during lockdown. It must’ve been after the…
Book Review: Everything Belongs To Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz
I just finished reading The Good Son, a crime thriller by You Jeong Jeong. A young man goes off his epilepsy medication and wakes up covered in blood one morning.…
On the Prowl
I am there at a friend’s invitation. (Never-mind where – it’s not remarkable enough to warrant a description). Well, that’s not strictly true. He and I are not on the…
The Conquistador’s Woman
The city lies quiet, clenched with worry. The night is empty, still. Even the wind is reluctant to move about. In the suburbs, through the backroads past some shrubbery, a…
Little Bird
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON I’m lounging in my house re-watching Bridget Jones Diary when my phone rings. “Melisandre,” Harry says. “How are you?” “I’m good, how are you?” “Great. Great. What…