A novel impossible to read for long stretches. A tour de force and an eye-opening revelation of one man’s immense… Read more JERUSALEM by Alan Moore

Own Voices https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Crime-Black-Lizard-Anniversary-ebook OUT by Natsuo Kirino This is not a novel for the faint of heart (trigger warning!) but… Read more OUT by Natsuo Kirino

by Patrick Barb, Keylight Books, Nashville, TN, 2023 www.turnerpublishing.com   This selection of short stories is the kind of horror… Read more PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING AND OTHER STORIES

  Spoiler Alert ***   Orhan Pamuk is not a new writer for me. He is a Turkish writer and… Read more NIGHTS OF PLAGUE by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

I had to read this stream-of-consciousness novel twice for the full flavor of this gloomy yet poetic narrative that reminds… Read more TOKYO UENO STATION by Miri Yu

              Book Review of GO, WENT, GONE by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated from German in… Read more GO, WENT, GONE. A German Scholar Overcomes His Indifference

Shadow tag is the family’s game, a collaborative effort to obliterate someone’s shadow. The person or person to lose their… Read more SHADOW TAG by Louise Erdrich

Novel published 1992 I read this novel nearly 20 years after its publication, and as a person largely inexperienced with… Read more NEIL STEPHENSON’S SNOW CRASH

  Ms. Erdritch has always been my favorite Native American novelist. She has a talent for bringing to the page… Read more THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Edritch

  First published in Japan in 1998 and translated into English in 2019. “Work will be work, home will be… Read more PREFECTURE D (4 Novellas) by Hideo Yokoama JAPANESE POLICE PROCEDURALS