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Can we ever escape generational trauma? Junot Diaz talks about mothers who save, politicians who dictate and language that colonization creates in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Wao and a fukú you’ve never seen or maybe you have, you wouldn’t know until it gets to you. But let me first tell you what a fukú is: a...


I TRY TO READ THE NAME OF THE ROSE AS VIRGINIA WOLFE READS A BOOK
I guess it’s sort of a poetic justice to have come across a trodden copy of this book. But it’s not a universal kind of poetic justice,...


Ernaux's Simple Passions is a dazzlingly simple study in the language of passion
After reading many of Ernaux’s work, this one has simply left me bedazzled. The sharpness of the simplicity of expression without the...
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