These two new novels ask a crucial question: who gets to tell our stories? Keziah Weir’s The Mythmakers follows one young journalist as she seeks answers within the unpublished manuscript of a recently dead author while her own life starts to crumble. Weir joins us to talk about likeable female characters, what makes the literary […]
Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes, is the second creepy serial killer thriller from the author after her breakout success last year, The Shining Girls. And while she does this kind of thing—creepy murder tableaus, cynical investigating officers, a dash of the supernatural—very well, I don’t want anyone to discount where she got her start: the sci-fi […]
In honor of the witchiest time of year, we present five books that will scare you worse than the ingredients list of a circus peanut. From an offbeat ghost story to fairy tales that bite, these reads will have you ignoring trick or treaters in your rush to get through just one more chapter before bedtime: […]
What’s that? You’ve cried your eyes sandpaper dry and rent all your garments reading John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars then watching the movie and then reading it again and filling a bathtub with your tears, and you’re still looking for a book that will give you all the feels? Try Side Effects May Vary, by Julie […]