Set in the sparsely populated state of Texas in 1870, this is the story of a relationship between Captain, a seventy-two-year-old man who makes his living as a reader of the news in small towns in northern…

Forster's subject is India under British rule and his principal character, the very dignified Dr. Aziz, is a Moslem who works in an English-run hospital. Secondary characters in this third person omniscient…

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I've been living in a Daisy Johnson world after reading her collection of stories, Fen, and her first novel, Everything Under. It's a world where the landscape is active, one where…