OCinSite – Randy Kraft reads

First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous masterpiece, "Evidence of Things Unseen." If...

An exploration of two novels: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan and The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka

Now and then, a novel comes on the radar that should be more widely read than it might. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez is one. A...

Domenico Starnone writes slim fictions, a rarity given the door stop-sized novels published recently. One might call them novellas, as...

Two terrific novels by French writers.

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