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Jan 16, 2025 | 
crimereads.com | Layne Fargo |Mona Awad
When you think of the Gothic genre, you probably picture ominous weather, crumbling manor houses, and women fleeing in flowy nightgowns, candelabras clutched in their trembling hands. But Gothic isn’t simply a dark and stormy aesthetic. Like so many things in art—and life—it’s about power. Who has it, and what they’ll do to hold onto it. Who doesn’t, and what they’ll do to acquire it.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |Mona Awad |Mira Grant |Allie Rowbottom
“Beauty is pain.” It’s an old adage meant to assuage the blisters born from pointed-toe heels, the pinch and pull of shapewear, the sting of bleach searing your scalp raw. It also hints at the horror beneath the endless pursuit of perfection, the impossible societal standards that fuel a twisted desire to be poreless, ageless, ever-shrinking—standards that disproportionately impact women but increasingly target men and kids, too.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Allie Rowbottom |Mona Awad |Frances Cha |Oscar Wilde
Reading Lists Beauty comes at a cost, but can you pay the price? We look at our faces so often we hardly notice them changing.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Ananda Lima |Mona Awad |Puloma Ghosh |Victor LaValle
Ananda Lima still sometimes laughs when she says the title of her forthcoming book, “Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil,” out loud. “I was lucky to have my editor behind it,” Lima said. “It’s whimsical but also a nod to the book’s engagement with metafiction and autofiction.
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May 6, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Mona Awad
Montreal is an island unto itself. An architect's paradise. A foodie's dream, where a pastry will make you weep. It's a city of extremes. The grandiose maximalism of Cirque du Soleil and Arcade Fire. The gritty punk scene and the thriving diner (casse-croûte) culture. Hot bacchanalian summers that never sleep, and cold brooding winters that draw you underground and inward. Perhaps that's why it's also a city of great style.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Ann Napolitano |Mona Awad |Melissa Broder
New in Paperback May 2024Even though there were plenty of paperbacks to keep those book appetites satiated in April, if you’re like us, your TBR piles might be looking a little light by now. In between firing up the grill and making Memorial Day plans this May, we’ve got a brand new round up of our favorite books now out in paperback.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
mamamia.com.au | Carmen Machado |Ottessa Moshfegh |Mona Awad |Lisa Jewell
Their lives become intertwined when Josie offers up her complicated and frankly dreary story to Alix to tell on her podcast. From there, disturbing truths begin to unravel. Both characters are pretty complicated and at times incredibly irritating, because they make a lot of bad decisions that hurt a lot of people. Overall though, None Of This Is True is one of those books you devour in an evening. If the suspense doesn't kill you, the characters' audacity surely will.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
reshsusan.substack.com | Mona Awad |Resh Susan
Dear Reader,How are you? I have two different introductions written to this letter—one wishing you a new year, and another about Feb being the season of love, and today I don’t think I want to rewrite a March intro. Today is alright; there’s internet, which was in short supply for a while, the sky is cloudy (which I like best). Probably my first takeaway of 2024 is how we are dependent on the internet. What do we do when the connection is patchy or worse, if there is no internet available? (gulp).
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
observerbd.com | Mona Awad
Beauty and brutality, Bunny by Mona Awad is not your average novel... Vile, grotesque, and beautiful are the three words I would use to describe Bunny by Mona Awad. Bunny by Mona Awad is an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book that I have yet to see any other author cover. As gut-wrenching and graphic were the chapters, I was unable to put the book down and ended up reading it in one go. Its intoxicating words kept readers hooked and made you wonder about your sanity.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
borneobulletin.com.bn | Yume Kitasei |Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Mona Awad |Kelly Link
THE WASHINGTON POST – People sometimes say science fiction basks in optimism for a better future, while fantasy is about nostalgia for an imaginary past. But this year’s most notable fantasy books worked to uncover historical crimes, while science fiction warned of coming evils. The good news? The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023 will give you hope and strength in the toughest times. 1.
