Melanie Basta
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Review — 26 Aug 2024
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room, is back with a literary spy novel, Creation Lake. In it, we meet former FBI agent Sadie Smith…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Tell by Jonathan Buckley
In Tell, a gardener talks about a wealthy businessman and art collector she used to work for in a series of interview transcripts. The man has disappeared, and the…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri & Todd Portnowitz (trans.)
For the uninitiated, Roman Stories is just the kind of short story collection you’d expect from Pulitzer Prize-winning multi-lingual author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Originally written in Italian and then translated into…