Jessica Johns' debut novel Bad Cree was inspired by her desire to disprove the idea, suggested by an instructor of hers, that dreams make for boring stories. If this dismissive view is one that tends ...
Read ReviewJessica Johns, the author of Bad Cree, is a member of the Sucker Creek First Nation in Northern Alberta. The Cree, or ininiw, who also refer to themselves as nêhiyawak (Plains Cree), nihithaw (...
Read ArticleSask-E is a planet that Verdance, a major terraforming company, has big plans for. Their business is acquiring unoccupied planets and changing their environments to suit their customers' needs. ...
Read ReviewThe Discovery of Plate Tectonics
In Annalee Newitz's science fiction novel The Terraformers, characters threaten to trigger the development of plate tectonics on the planet Sask-E as a form of political leverage. The theory of plate ...
Read ArticleThe lynchpin of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton, a novel split into four parts, is the main character Wanda, whose determination to remain in her Florida hometown is tested to extremes by the ...
Read ReviewThe Impact of Climate Change in Florida
Climate change is an international problem but its impact can already be felt more intensely in certain areas. This is particularly true in locations that are warm and coastal, which are more ...
Read ArticleThe World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
Calamity can cohabit with joy, and you and I have, on some plane, accepted that absurd reality. We are living in a dystopia: Some of us can enjoy a day out with loved ones, and on our way to our warm ...
Read ReviewFranny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On delves into how Korean women were treated before, during and after the Korean War, as well as the generational trauma and isolation ...
Read ArticleIn recent years, Booker Prize–nominated novelist Paul Auster has increasingly turned to nonfiction writing, including a prizewinning biography of writer Stephen Crane, as well as a pair of...
Read ReviewThe Photography of Spencer Ostrander
Thanks to the numerous photographs that accompany Paul Auster's prose, Bloodbath Nation reads like an extended photo essay, the combination of words and pictures creating a truly indelible work. ...
Read ArticleThe Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch was a big hit with our First Impressions readers, earning an overall average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars. Meltzer, a bestselling author of ...
Read ReviewThe Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch centers on an alleged plot by the Germans during World War II to kill or kidnap the three major world leaders representing the Allied powers: ...
Read ArticleRiver Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
A remarkable debut about a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery.
Margot
by Wendell Steavenson
A young woman struggles to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.
The Love of My Life
by Rosie Walsh
An up-all-night love story wrapped in a mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted.
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