When I finished Television by Lauren Rothery, I couldn’t shake the feeling that my own life looked less like a grand film and more like a messy, low-stakes TV show … Read more
If you’ve ever walked out of a room wondering which version of yourself just spoke, Audition is the novel that gently—then relentlessly—shows you why. It tackles the modern ache of … Read more
Violence doesn’t start with a trigger; it often starts with a whisper. The Proving Ground tackles the chilling question of whether an AI companion’s whisper can help push a teenager … Read more
If you’ve ever been told to smile through exhaustion or “keep up appearances,” The Mad Wife shows the hidden bill of that performance—on bodies, marriages, neighborhoods, and minds. It solves … Read more
Published in 2015 by Doubleday in the United States and Picador in the United Kingdom, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara quickly became one of the most discussed works of … Read more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, first published in 1999 in Japan and translated into English by Philip Gabriel in 2001, is one of the author’s most intimate, melancholic, and mysterious … Read more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a contemplative novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2013 and later translated into English by Philip Gabriel in … Read more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious and intricately woven novels, first published in Japan in three volumes between 1994 and 1995, later combined and translated … Read more
Kafka on the Shore is a mesmerizing novel by the celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2002 by Shinchosha and later translated into English by Philip … Read more
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a South Korean novel that was first published in 2007 and later translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. The book quickly garnered … Read more
The Hunger Angel (original title: Der Hungerengel) is a novel written by Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German author and Nobel Laureate in Literature. Published in 2009, it follows the life … Read more