“What truly matters is to move past the breaking point of the waves of our minds and desperate need to know and out into the deeper sea of action, physicality, and existence.”

“It’s a wonderful stroke of ingenuity to craft a novel in which the protagonist is embroiled in a kind of conflict that they are incapable of understanding.”

“The perfected lyrical austerity of the collection is posited in the words: ‘I am weighed down,’ with the intention of decrying the political and geographical dichotomy between the rich and the poor.”

“But because of its commitment to fiction and powerful storytelling, Mythos is able to extend its reach into the realm of genuine cultural distillation without relying on allegory or a didactic mode.”

“[Min Jin] Lee brings each decade of the Korean experience under Japanese subjugation, from the 1930s to the end of the 1980s, to stunning life.”

“Like John F. Kennedy’s own character and presidential career, An Unfinished Life is difficult to evaluate. In its aim to provide the most intimate and personal portrait of one of the biggest political characters in American history, it is undeniably successful, even if it often fails its promise of neutrality.”

“With renditions of sugar-coated oratory, Denja believes that the socio-political hazards [of Nigeria] are addressed via “power-point presentations” in conferences without outright actions to correct the ailments reviewed.”

“Vaults of Secrets charts a vibrant course and it textually articulates the fraudulent, ambivalent, and secretive predisposition of man in post-colonial Nigeria.“

Helena Carvalho reviews Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) by the Novel-prize winning author, Olga Tokarczuk.

“The success of this book relates to the author’s grasp of subjectivity and the limits of individual perception. There is no such thing as impartiality. Each character sees a different person, where some see a holy man others see nothing but a madman.”

A translated reprint of a review and commentary written by Yong Oak Shin, a South Korean historian, on The Guest (2001).

Yoojin Shin contemplates love and disillusionment in Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Helena Carvalho reflects on Michelle Richmond’s The Marriage Pact (2017).