Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible is a believable climate fable
The dystopian novel feels about 15 minutes away from becoming reality.
Kindness, kinship, and the boundaries of justice
The virtue of kindness depends on who we see as kin.
The anguish and ecstasy of the ark’s matriarch
Sarah Blake’s surrealist novel about Naamah—Noah’s wife—is mesmerizing.
Is Jamie Quatro’s novel really about marital infidelity?
Maybe Fire Sermon is more fundamentally a parable about religion.