The Book of Sleep
by Haytham El Wardany, translated by Robin Moger (yes, the same translator as Traces of Enayat)
Forget space, or the dark depths of the oceans: the true unexplored human frontier is the third of our lives we spend suspended in the strange netherworld of sleep. For all the talk of dreams, how lit... (Tom)
The Children's Bach
by Helen Garner
This book reminded me of the 1983 movie, The Big Chill, but with more nuance and an off-beat soundtrack (and an Australian setting). Published just a year later, it’s also about college classmates fro... (Liz)
The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
What began as a book about the craft and politics of writing—addressed to his Howard University students, as his bestseller Between the World and Me was written to his son—became something else as Coa... (Tom)
Traces of Enayat
by Iman Mersal, translated by Rob
When Mersal, a young Egyptian literary scholar, encountered the novel Love and Silence by chance at a Cairo bookshop, she was drawn to the book's beauty and strangeness, but also to the author, the ne... (Tom)
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Berkeley, has made the one-third netherworld of sleep his life's work, and when you're a reader in his hands, it's hard not to be convinced there'... (Tom)