Kamil Ahsan is a biologist and historian with a doctorate from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in The Millions, The Rumpus, Dissent, The American Prospect, and Jacobin, among others.
There’s a hothouse isolation pervading Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel that’s evocative of Jeffrey Eugenides’ much-lauded 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides. But instead of a white family in a declining Detroit suburb, The Unpassing centers a Taiwanese immigrant family in the remote wilderness of Alaska, 20 miles outside…
Adèle, by the French-Moroccan author Leila Slimani, is set to be released in English tomorrow, coming to English readers after Slimani’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel, The Perfect Nanny. But chronologically, Adèle came first. It was the author’s debut novel, apparently one inspired by the well-publicized scandal…
