The Hole - José Revueltas (trans. Sophie Hughes and Amanda Hopkinson) (1969)

The Hole is a short, intense vignette of an attempt to smuggle drugs into a prison....

March 19, 2022 · 1 min

The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections - V.S. Naipual (1987)

Over the course of five sections, The Enigma of Arrival draws an autobiographical portrait of an unnamed narrator that strongly resembles the author. Like Naipaul, the narrator is ethnically Hindu, raised in Trinidad, and schooled in England....

February 4, 2021 · 4 min