When a patient dies on your watch and the country freezes to a halt, how do you keep a marriage, a conscience—and a village—alive? Miller’s novel The Land in Winter … Read more
Grief scrambles memory, and Flashlight by Susan Choi shows how a family spends decades trying to see in the dark. The novel tackles a problem most books only skirt: how … Read more
Midlife creeps up quietly, and so do the mistakes you’ve agreed to live with; The Rest of Our Lives solves the problem of how to narrate that quiet drama without … Read more
We live with bodies that remember what our minds try to forget, and Flesh by David Szalay shows how that memory quietly rewires a life.If you’ve ever wondered why one … Read more