Colum McCann’s novel TransAtlantic revolves around two missives that reach unanticipated recipients. The first is an undelivered letter written by an American daughter, Emily Ehrlich, on behalf of ...
Lucy Sheehan
Lucy Sheehan is a PhD candidate in English literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the relationship between representations of slavery in nineteenth-century Britain and the Victorian novel. 
Up from the Shadows
“Aren’t archives supposed to be forever? Well, forever’s a meaningless concept in Asia. Here, only the present is eternal.” So we read early on in Sandi Tan’s debut novel, The Black Isle, a ...