Editor’s choice: ‘The Shelf’ by Phyllis Rose
How I miss the random discoveries of the library card catalog. The pull of the drawer, the worn edges on the cards, how the row seemed to fall open on...
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Editor’s choice: ‘The Shelf’ by Phyllis Rose
How I miss the random discoveries of the library card catalog. The pull of the drawer, the worn edges on the cards, how the row seemed to fall open on...
Editor’s choice: ‘Above the East China Sea’ by Sarah Bird
When conversation about World War II turns toward the East, toward Asia, attention generally focuses on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Battle of Iwo Jima or the horrors of Nagasaki...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Sun and Other Stars’ by Brigid Pasulka
How can it be that a novel that seems so dark — the narrator's twin brother has died in a motorcycle crash, and their despondent mother takes her own life...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Sun and Other Stars’ by Brigid Pasulka
How can it be that a novel that seems so dark — the narrator's twin brother has died in a motorcycle crash, and their despondent mother takes her own life...
Editor’s choice: Audiobook version of ‘Identical’ by Scott Turow
Short stories and podcasts may hold one's attention for a bus ride to work, but a trip across country calls for mightier stuff. For me, it came in the form...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Frangipani Hotel’ by Violet Kupersmith
"The Frangipani Hotel," a debut collection of thematically linked short stories, opens with "Boat Story," in which a girl working on a school project meets her Vietnamese grandmother's resistance and...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Frangipani Hotel’ by Violet Kupersmith
"The Frangipani Hotel," a debut collection of thematically linked short stories, opens with "Boat Story," in which a girl working on a school project meets her Vietnamese grandmother's resistance and...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Frangipani Hotel’ by Violet Kupersmith
"The Frangipani Hotel," a debut collection of thematically linked short stories, opens with "Boat Story," in which a girl working on a school project meets her Vietnamese grandmother's resistance and...
Editor’s choice: ‘The Opposite of Loneliness’ by Marina Keegan
"We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life," wrote Marina Keegan. As a college senior,...