Oct 31, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
Thank you to whoever recommended Daniel Kraus’ ANGEL DOWN (Titan Books 2025) to me. Nothing about the cover or the title would have made me pick up this book on my own, but word of mouth is strong! (And it’s since won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). This...
Oct 20, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
What a balm, a joy, a comfort to read a novel of such wisdom, truth, vulnerability, curiosity and humanity. THE CORRESPONDENT (Penguin Random House 2025) by Virginia Evans is such a book: from the opening pages to the conclusion, it is filled with warmth and good...
Oct 16, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
THE FRAMING (Melbourne University Press 2026) is an interesting memoir by Fernanda Dahlstrom, an Asian/Australian writer of Swedish heritage. Now a lawyer in the Northern Territory, through a series of loosely connected memories Dahlstrom attempts to excavate her...
Oct 13, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
So much hype around this debut novel by Caro Claire Burke, YESTERYEAR (HarperCollins 2026) and I began with high hopes of a story about a TradWife culture gone wrong, and a peek behind the scenes of the picture-perfect influencers who fill our Instagram pages. The...
Oct 7, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
After fulsome adoration of HAMNET and LAND, I reached for the novel by Maggie O’Farrell in between those two that I’d missed: THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT (Headline Publishing 2022). Written in O’Farrell’s consuming and evocative style, it is another triumph of...
Sep 25, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
Thanks to Fiona Stager for pressing into my hands this whimsical, witty, sardonic, clever and entirely amusing comedy of manners set in 1883, THE UNSELECTED JOURNALS OF EMMA M. LION (Vol 1 & 2) by Beth Brower and published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2026. For...
