Book review: “Minor Detail”, by Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a short novel that behaves like a pressure chamber. It is emotionally heavy, deeply unsettling, and engineered to sustain a haunting tension long after the final page.…

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Book review: “To have and to have more”

On the surface, To Have and to Have More is a story set in an elite boarding school, centered on a complicated friendship between two American girls from radically different…

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Book review: “My Friends” by Hisham Matar

Although I usually prefer reading the words on the page, a season of long drives led me to the audiobook of My Friends, narrated by Hisham Matar himself. I am…

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