Katie Smith, Author at Book and Film Globe

Nine Books on Immigration

October 18, 2026October 15, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afghan women poets, Afghanistan, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Andreas Kossert, Axis of Empire, book recommendations, books about immigration, Death of the Soccer God, Dimitry Elias Léger, Hair on Fire, Haiti, Hamdullah Mohib, historical fiction, How to Close a Camp, immigrant detention, immigrant experiences, immigrant memoirs, immigration history, Immigration literature, immigration policy, Iran, John Washington, Katya Suvorova, memoir, new books 2026, Nghiem Tran, Nonfiction, Our Hours Are Married to Shadow, Poetry, queer literature, Rafael Osío Cabrices, refugee stories, Shadows over Kabul, Tam Hussein, The Uprooted, Twilight in Venezuela, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Venezuela, Vietnamese American poetry, World Cup 2026

From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home

Transport Yourself ‘In Every Possible Way’ with a Summer Romance

September 13, 2026September 11, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Thompson, Before Sunrise, Berkley Books, Book Review, contemporary romance, Dreams, Dublin, fiction, In Every Possible Way, Ireland, Irish countryside, Love in the Time of Serial Killers, love story, rom-com, romance books, romance novel, romantic comedy, summer reading, The Cranberries

All is fair – including head trauma and magical realism – in love.

BOOKS Featured Stories FICTION

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

Let ‘Swell’ Expand Your Reality

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Table for Six, Asian literature, Blanket, Blimp, book criticism, Book Review, contemporary authors, contemporary literature, experimental fiction, family relationships, fiction collections, genre bending fiction, Give Them the Lindy Hop, grief and loss, independent publishing, international fiction, Janet Hong, Janet Hong translation, Korean literature, literary culture, literary fiction, literary translation, magical realism, marriage and infidelity, modern short stories, multiverse stories, Son Bo mi, South Korean fiction, speculative fiction, Swell, The Love of a Scientist, translated literature, Two Lines Press, Two Lines Press books, UFO fiction, unreliable narrators, world literature

A new collection of Son Bo-Mi’s stories arrives in English

The Unforgettable Women of ‘Men Like Ours’

May 14, 2026May 13, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments 2026 books, abuse and trauma, Big Little Lies, Bindu Bansinath, Bloomsbury Publishing, book culture, book reviews, coming of age fiction, community gossip, contemporary fiction, contemporary literature, cycles of abuse, Desperate Housewives, diaspora literature, Domestic Noir, domestic thriller, family secrets, female friendships, female solidarity, feminist fiction, generational trauma, immigrant communities, immigrant families, immigration stories, Indian American fiction, Indian diaspora, literary fiction, literary thrillers, Men Like Ours, mother daughter relationships, multicultural fiction, murder mystery, mystery novels, neighborhood drama, New Jersey suburbs, New York writers, psychological fiction, South Asian American writers, South Asian fiction, suburban drama, suspense novels, The Cut magazine, transnational identity, women and community, women’s fiction

The Cut’s Bindu Bansinath pens a suburban thriller about solidarity

Carver

AUTHOR STUFF CREATORS Writers

Don’t Forget About “Ray” Carver

June 4, 2025June 9, 2025 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alex Perez, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver

Writer Alex Perez pens a reading list for the Modern Literary Man

Austen

FICTION Young Adult

BookTok-Inspired Austen Covers Flop with Fans Online

February 6, 2025February 11, 2025 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ali Hazelwood, BookTok, Brandon Tyler, First Impressions, Jane Austen, Puffin

It’s too late to make a ‘First Impression’

Jeanine Cummins

Jeanine Cummins Returns, Much To the Chagrin of Extremely-Online Lit Types

September 25, 2024September 30, 2024 Katie Smith 1 Comment American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins, Speak To Me Of Home

‘American Dirt’ Author announces Puerto Rico novel

Vance

Literary World Reacts To J.D. Vance as Trump’s Pick

July 18, 2024July 29, 2024 Katie Smith 0 Comments HarperCollins, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, Ron Howard, Seven Stories Press

Twitter, not surprisingly, has many thoughts on a memorist’s rise to power

The Traitors

Suspend Disbelief and Drop In To ‘The Traitors’

February 6, 2024February 9, 2024 Katie Smith 1 Comment Alan Cumming, Parvati Shallow, Phaedra Parks, The Traitors

Season 2 of the absurd “reality” series is even better

Golden Bachelor

My TV Love Affair With ‘The Golden Bachelor’

January 6, 2024January 10, 2024 Katie Smith 0 Comments Gerry Turner, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Golden Bachelor

It was a romantic fantasy for all ages

Michelle Williams

It’s Michelle Williams, B****

October 31, 2023November 3, 2023 Katie Smith 0 Comments Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Michelle Williams, The Woman In Me

Britney Spears fans love her new memoir, but the Internet unanimously agrees that Williams’s audiobook performance is an all-timer

Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Goes To War With Russia

June 15, 2023June 20, 2023 Katie Smith 0 Comments Elizabeth Gilbert, Leigh Stein, Lincoln Michel, Lydia Kiesling, The Snow Forest

After anonymous online complaints, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ author pulls novel set in Soviet Union. Literary Twitter is unanimously Russian to judgement to condemn her decision.

Music NON-FICTION

Shake It Off: Taylor Swift Is Not Writing A Memoir

May 18, 2023 Katie Smith 0 Comments BTS, Taylor Swift

Blank space on the bestseller list belongs to another fandom

BookTok

Need to Spice Up Your Relationship? Try BookTok!

May 8, 2023May 10, 2023 Katie Smith 0 Comments BookTok, Nichole Perkins, TikTok

Romance lovers bring their favorite novel tropes to real-life relationships

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