The Dead Ladies Project by Jessa Crispin

When a personal meltdown sent her packing, writer and literary critic Jessa Crispin went in search of life’s answers. Traipsing Continue reading →

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

In 1932, French law prohibited women from wearing more than five items of men’s clothing at any one time. Those Continue reading →

The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King

The Bones of Paris mixes the macabre with the insouciant in a complex tale of suspense set in the late Continue reading →

Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst

As a Hungarian officer in the first world war, Nicholas Morath was a hero, a miser with his men. With Continue reading →