Emma Morgan

Martha Friel is the pretty daughter of a poet and a sculptor, a funny food column writer, adored by her husband Patrick since she was a teenager. She is also terribly, terribly sad. In Sorrow and Bliss, Meg […]

“The iliac crest. From there, from Ilion, from her crest, Odysseus departed on his return to Ithaca after the war,” Cristina Rivera Garza’s narrator muses at the end of her novel, which was recently trans […]

As she writes, Rebecca Solnit sits at a desk gifted to her by “a woman who a man tried to murder”, a friend stabbed fifteen times by her ex-boyfriend. “It seems time to tell what it meant to me to grow up in a […]

Amidst the manicured lawns and picket-fenced mansions of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a house is engulfed by flames. Its owner, Stepford-esque mother-of-four Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon) looks on aghast, as […]

Florida (2018)

Lauren Groff’s second collection of short stories, Florida, plunges us into a hot and humid world, where swamp creatures slither over the thresholds of human existence, and t […]