Reading Recommendations
Book Reviews
The Age of Doubt
Book review of The Age of Doubt by Pak Kyongni, one of Korea’s most known and respected authors.
Ten Books by Japanese Authors in Translation
A great way to get a feel for a country, other than living there, is to read its literature. While was in Japan in 2023, I read a lot of Japanese authors in translation. For this post, I’ve limited myself…
Seven Books on Grief and Loss
Here are seven books on grief and loss I recommend: More nonfiction recommendations? Read my words on:
Places We Left Behind
The painful thread running through Lang’s moving memoir Places We Left Behind is the question of sacrifice. What should we give up for the person we love?
Five Books on Indonesia
I recently spent two months on Bali and read many books on Indonesia. Here are five books on the region I recommend.
Sidle Creek
Jolene McIlwain writes about cruelty without glorifying it or using it gratuitously. My full review essay appeared on CRAFT: “Beyond Binary Thinking: Writing Cruelty Without Inflicting Harm.”
