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Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm
I wish I could read Norwegian. This was the first thought I had upon finishing Merethe Lindstrøm’s most recent novel, Days in the History of Silence, which won both the 2011 Nordic Council Literature...
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Love and Lament by John Milliken Thompson
If memory, as Eudora Welty wrote, “is a living thing [and] all that is remembered joins, and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead”, then John Milliken...
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The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P. S. Duffy
Siegfried Sassoon—British poet and decorated World War I soldier—wrote in his poem “Dreamers”: Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land Drawing no dividend from time’s to-morrows Sassoon appears...
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Father Junípero’s Confessor by Nick Taylor
When Josiah Royce wrote his book California: A Study of American Character in the 1880s, he noted in the preface that his history would begin with the “American California” that emerged from the...
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Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano
A few pages into “Afterimage,” the first novella in Patrick Modiano’s Suspended Sentences, a middle-aged photographer asks the nineteen year-old narrator what he plans to do with his future. “Write,”...
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Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Margaret Cavendish—neè Lucas, erstwhile Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria, and ultimately the Duchess of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne—was named “Mad Madge” by the Restoration-era English public; disparaged...
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