7 December 1962 He was lying on a varnished wooden board, the top of a boxed-in radiator. The board was exactly as wide as his shoulders and he knew, from painful experience, he must sit up like a man emerging from his own coffin. Roll over and he would be on the floor. You never … Continue reading The Land in Winter | Andrew Miller| This Reading Life
This very confident first novel from journalist Phoebe Greenwood is a satire which sometimes contorts itself into horror. The narrator Sara Byrne, a young English journalist, covers the 2012 Gaza War from The Beach, a hotel filled with reporters and photographers. She writes for The Tribune, not as a correspondent but as a stringer, so… The post Foreign Affair: Phoebe Greenwood’s “Vulture” appeared first on Chicago Review of Books.| Chicago Review of Books
"The Tokyo Suite" by Brazilian author Giovana Madalosso, translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, is an ambitious novel. It explores and questions gender roles and expectations in marriage and caregiving, the very structure of traditional marriages, the demands and complexities of motherhood, the contradictions of life in the big city, and the inequities inherent in capitalism.| Reading in Translation