Tag: Hanya Yanagihara

• Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

  Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always […]

  Shannon Turlington

  April 9, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Books, Cherie Priest, China Mieville, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, Dexter Palmer, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Margaret Atwood, Michel Faber, Paolo Bacigalupi, PD James, Reading list, Science fiction

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2013 Novels

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2013. Rivers by Michael Farris Smith (2013) In the near future, climate change and perpetual storms have forced the US government to abandon the Gulf Coast, and those who remain live without […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 21, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2013, Anthology, Apocalyptic literature, AX Ahmad, Contemporary fiction, Domestic suspense, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Michael Farris Smith, Rivers, Sarah Weinman, Short stories, The Caretaker, The People in the Trees, Thriller, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writers

• Recommended Reading: The People in the Trees

  The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara is a dark book that really sticks with you. On an expedition to a remote island in the South Pacific, a scientist discovers that the native people have significantly increased their lifespans by eating a rare turtle, but their immortality comes at the price of severe mental degeneration. After […]

  Shannon Turlington

  September 11, 2015

  Reading

  Dark fiction, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees