The race to get to the North Pole frames a young explorer's effort to unearth his family history in Johnston's latest, a captivating narrative that delves into both the noble and the Continue reading »
Sheilagh Fielding—a striking, unconventional, six-foot-three Newfoundland woman with a limp—returns from prolific Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Continue reading »
""As lived our fathers, we live not,/Where once they knelt, we stand./With neither God nor King to guard our lot, We'll guard thee, Newfoundland"": so rings the resigned, ironic patriotism practiced Continue reading »
Returning to the Newfoundland trenchantly chronicled in his acclaimed recent novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Johnston has crafted a sensitive, occasionally elusive memoir centered on three Continue reading »
Bosnian British author Morris debuts with the stirring story of a community’s heroic efforts to maintain its humanity during the siege of Sarajevo. In spring 1992, as sectarian Continue reading »
The second novel from essayist and poet Manguso (after Very Cold People) paints an excoriating portrait of a marriage. In brisk prose, Manguso tells the story of John and Jane, Continue reading »
Obioma (An Orchestra of Minorities) explores the complexities of Nigeria’s civil war in his masterful latest. Kunle Aromire, a university student in Lagos, returns to his Continue reading »
Fawkes (Tales the Devil Told Me) juxtaposes Civil War America and ancient Greece in this dazzling historical fantasy. Sylvie Swift is raised in poverty by her widowed father in Continue reading »