Kathy is getting married, but she's not quite sure about love and if she's really capable of it. She's preoccupied with the world around...

Sugihara is sitting alone at his friend's birthday party when a breath-taking girl named Sakurai walks up to him. He can't help but fall...

1866. The New Zealand gold rush. Walter Moody has just stepped off a boat on the New Zealand coast. A London gentleman, he's come to try...

A handsome man buys a pharmacy in Chicago. He's warm, charismatic, kind. He's also built a sound-proof gas chamber and a hot, hot kiln...

Mercy is a recent Columbia graduate with no direction in life. Margaret is (was) the mother of 3. Hilary is in a transactional marriage,...

This past spring I had the pleasure of meeting Celeste Ng when she came to Pittsburgh to promote her second novel Little Fires...

Perhaps this makes me a "bad" reader and lover of literature, but I haven't read anything by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, or Emily...

Nishimura is a seasoned pickpocket. He roams the streets of Tokyo looking for rich men to rob, deftly sliding his fingers into their...

One of the best ways to know a culture is to consume its art. Film and literature especially give me glimpses of the cultures key...

London. The second half of the 19th century. Three families inextricably tied together. British-Bengali Samad Iqbal and Englishman...

Galaxy "Alex" Stern sees ghosts. They've been a permanent fixture in her life and are usually harmless. But after one tries to assault...

I've been reading a lot of good books this year. But it's been a while since I read a great book, one that resonated with me and stuck in...

Fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd first spies the group of girls in the park, digging through the trash cans for food. The most striking of...

R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries purports to be a novel about a college cult "with ties to North Korea," but it's really an examination of...

I'm convinced antique and second-hand stores occupy a different place in time-space than the surrounding world. They exist in both the...

Despite it being officially Autumn on the East Coast, it's already quite cold, with blustery winds that funnel down the back of my neck...

Marketed as a feminist retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, Circe by Madeline Miller is told from the titular female's perspective. From her...

I often say that I would die for my dog and cats. And I truly think that I would. But how well do I really know myself? If I was actually...

During my final year of elementary school (or maybe it was my first year of middle school), we learned about Native Americans. I don't...

Any book that's hailed as existential immediately grabs my attention. I enjoy seeing characters struggle with the same questions I have,...