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: 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…