Louis Amis

Manic creations

Two lovable protagonists provide consolation against a background of the notorious Riker’s Island jail

  • Lost Empress: A Protest

    Sergio De La Pava

    MacLehose Press, pp. 640

American mass-incarceration is the most overt object of the ‘protest’ of this novel’s subtitle. The author, Sergio De La Pava, works as a public defender in New York City, and calls on an intimate secondhand knowledge of the many different sorrows to be found in the ripples of a single criminal case.

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