The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
Short and devastating
Slim books that leave a mark.
Book 1 The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
READ IT Postwar Holland, a rigid woman, an unwanted houseguest, and what the house is really hiding. Erotic and moral at once. Read it.
Book 2 Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
FOR SOME Two brothers grieving a father, chess, and complicated love. Her best sentences, her usual weather. Rooney people will be happy.
Book 3 Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
SKIP IT A spy infiltrates French eco-radicals and muses on Neanderthals. Cool, clever, curiously inert. Admired more than enjoyed.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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