Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
Moll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...
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Sep 7, 20212 min read
All That Is Worth Remembering
“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...
Aug 31, 20214 min read
Famiglia di Natalia Ginzburg
(english version below) Famiglia di Natalia Ginzburg contiene due novelle sulla vita della borghesia romana nella seconda metà del secolo...
Aug 24, 20212 min read
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Desiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...
Aug 17, 20212 min read
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...
Aug 10, 20212 min read
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...
Aug 3, 20212 min read
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Grand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...
Jul 27, 20213 min read
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...
Jul 20, 20212 min read
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
In face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...
Jul 13, 20213 min read
Ich Würde So Etwas Nie Ohne Lippenstift Lesen von Michaela Karl
Heute ist sie fast in Vergessenheit geraten, doch einst war Maeve Brennan gefeierte Autorin und Ikone der New Yorker Modewelt. Die schöne...
Jul 6, 20213 min read
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...
Jun 29, 20212 min read
Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat
Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...
Jun 22, 20213 min read
all about love by bell hooks
Feminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...
Jun 15, 20213 min read
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The pain of growing up is the main character in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Woods. Toru Watanabe finds himself at a crossways, having to...
Jun 1, 20213 min read
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...
May 25, 20212 min read
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
Fathers and Sons is Howard Cunnell’s beautiful memoir about growing up, about love and masculinity, about fathers and sons. This short...
May 18, 20212 min read
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...
May 11, 20212 min read
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...
May 4, 20213 min read
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...
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