Shuggie Bain Book Review: A Brutal, Beautiful Story of Love, Poverty, and Survival Some novels break your heart loudly. Others do it quietly, page by page, until you realize you have been holding your breath for far too long. Shuggie Bain belongs to the second kind. Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut does not make for Read more…

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar: A Novel That Sits With You Long After You’re Done About the Author Kaveh Akbar was born in Tehran in 1989 and moved to the United States when he was still a toddler. He grew up across different states—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana—which probably explains why themes like displacement and identity Read more…