Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.
Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.
Review: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Entangled Life is a mind-expanding trip into the world of fungi, and a model for nature and science writing.
Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
Review: Summer by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.
Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva
A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.
Review: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
A short and brutal dissection of societal sickness.
Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.
Review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn
A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.
Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.
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