The Promise of Hope

Killed last year in the infamous terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate mall, Kofi Awoonor was a national treasure in his native Ghana.  His career began in 1964 with Rediscovery, and this magnum opus serves as a tribute to his entire long journey charting his...

Winter Mythologies and Abbots

A pair of linked stories finds that, as translator Ann Jefferson relates, “[Pierre] Michon’s great theme is the precarious balance between belief and imposture, and the way the greatest aspirations can be complicated by physical desire or the equally...

Marquez at Camp Liberty

When I heard that Gabriel García Márquez had died, I immediately thought of three things: the fine grit of Iraqi sand that scratched between the page and my fingertips, the metal cot with springs that squeaked like those beneath a prostitute’s...

Love Boxed

Reading books filled with passion is my favorite indulgence, and as a romance author, I get to call it work, too. A great way to sink into reading bliss is multi-author boxed sets, which represent a collaboration of authors, both bestselling and new, usually in the...