NONFICTION The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow challenge our presumptions about the…
Fiction The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez: An extraordinary short story collection about the macabre and the supernatural in everyday life, I read this book by…
Bleak landscapes and brooding detectives with personal demons are par for the course in books and TV now because of Swedish writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
Qiu Xiaolong is a poet, translator and critic whose crime books starring the reluctant detective Chen Chao show a side of China beyond the news.