Reading Recommendations
Book Reviews
Landed by Jennifer Lang
How should we react to terror that’s here to stay? Lang and her family members respond with stubborn resilience or temporary denial. With self-defense lessons in the synagogue’s social hall and learning how not to get stabbed.
Antonio Tabucchi
Message from the Shadows, Time Ages in a Hurry, Pereira Maintains I haven’t updated my website in a while. This summer, I turned my Substack newsletter Wander, Wonder, Write into a weekly publication and I’ve been busy writing essays and…
The Age of Doubt
Book review of The Age of Doubt by Pak Kyongni, one of Korea’s most known and respected authors.
Ten Books by Japanese Authors in Translation
A great way to get a feel for a country, other than living there, is to read its literature. While was in Japan in 2023, I read a lot of Japanese authors in translation. For this post, I’ve limited myself…
Seven Books on Grief and Loss
Here are seven books on grief and loss I recommend: More nonfiction recommendations? Read my words on:
Places We Left Behind
The painful thread running through Lang’s moving memoir Places We Left Behind is the question of sacrifice. What should we give up for the person we love?
