What Allende Knows About Inheritance
Isabel Allende's The Soul of a Woman is not a memoir. It is a reckoning with what women inherit — the damage and the defiance that travel together through generations. A review from The Shelf.
Book Review
Who Built England
Morris has not written the history of England. He has written the history of its kings — which is faster, funnier, and more politically urgent than most of his contemporaries dare. As starting points go, it is a very good one.
She Waited. That Was the Whole of It.
Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion is not a love story. It is a forensic account of a woman who has reorganised her life around waiting — and what that waiting costs her.
The Wall He Was Watching - The Shell by Mostafa Khalifa
Mostafa Khalifa spent thirteen years in Tadmor. The Wall He Was Watching doesn't dramatise that. It reports it — and the distinction is the entire argument.