Aram Davidian and his friends are among thousands of children orphaned by the Turkish effort, at the end of the First World War, to eradicate its non-Muslim Armenian population.  By 1923 many of these children, together with a small number of fortunate adults, had taken refuge on the Greek island of Corfu.

Drive down a freeway through typical North American urban sprawl – whether it be Toronto, New Jersey, Houston or L.A. – and you will encounter a cluttered yet relentlessly vacuous landscape.  In her latest collection, Expressway, Sina Queyras takes that landscape as an extended metaphor for our contemporary world:  a world of blurring speeds, heavy [...]

There are four other books about Stella. There are others about her brother Sam but I have not read them. This book tells you how life seems when Stella’s small, for example she’s so small that the bath seems to her like the Olympic pool. I like it because Stella imagines that she’s a turtle [...]