‘The Small Backs of Children’ by Lidia Yuknavitch
The plot centers on an orphaned child from a war torn Eastern European country, and how her life captivates and unsettles a group of western artists
A Queer Look at Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’
The eighty-nine-year-old Lee has long been a lesbian literary icon, and her protagonist, Scout Finch, a.k.a. Jean Louise, has been—along with Carson McCullers’ Frankie Addams in The Member of the Wedding—a girl that every young American lesbian grew up reading
‘Orient’ by Christopher Bollen
Bollen crafts a series of interweaving threads with impressive finesse and detail, and it’s a testament to his talent that the reader can become equally invested in them as they are in getting to the roots of the murders and arson that begin to pepper the narrative
Book Lovers: Winter Gothic
Winter is here and so are some darkly romantic new titles. This month Dick Smart reviews two recent romance novels, The White Devil by Justin Evans and The Bad Seed by Lee Hayes.
