Designed to mimic my Lorna Sage reading project of six women writers each year (here in 2024 and here in 2025), I chose Julia Alvarez, Alexis Wright, Annie Ernaux, Olga Tokarczuk, Gish Jen, and Leslie Marmon Silko for 2026. At first, I thought I would read a few books
My experiment with reading-stories-in-sevens continues. This group of seven, pictured alongside, includes fiction by Liliana Colanzi, Anne Enright, Mary Gaitskill, Catherine Lacey, Weike Wang, and Paul Yoon (and whoever is in that issue with the adorbs cat cover). Are these writers you’ve read? I’ve heard of all but the
But now for a summer book that I actually read out-of-season: I was entranced by Mireille Gagné’s Horsefly (2024), translated by Pablo Strauss the following year. (Published by Coach House in Canada, New Cross Press in England, La livre de Poche in France). It’s turned a few heads, and
Originally I picked up a copy because of the cover, the slight embossing on that title and the antlers encircling it (not the cover pictured below). But I read it because I am curious about how the Sámi people live, in what’s called Scandinavia today. Traditionally they are reindeer
I grew up reading Enid Blyton, wondering what was ginger beer and desperately wanting some for my own “secret island” and other adventures. So it’s unsurprising that I understood the value Proust placed on the taste of a madeleine, decades before I tasted one myself, decades before I read
