Category: Contemporary

I picked up this novel because it was about the conclave. My first knowledge of it comes from Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, and…

It’s sad to have to write a negative review on a popular contemporary work like The Song of Achilles but quite honestly, I didn’t…

The 2023 Booker Prize winner is a powerful tribute to the victims who were, who are, and who will be of either state-induced dictatorship…

The beginning of my reader-author relationship with Jhumpa Lahiri was not pleasant. I read The Namesake for an assignment for my MA, and while…

Autumn is Ali Smith’s response to Brexit. Clearly, she disagrees with the majority of the British’s decision to leave the European Union as demonstrated…

I never thought that I would experience yet another Lolita in my life. But My Dark Vanessa is a similar kind, because I found…

The Door is a singular story of an unusual relationship between a female author and her housekeeper. Emerence, the housekeeper, is quite a character,…

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner is a sequel to her debut The Jane Austen Society. Like in her debut novel, Jenner has chosen a…