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Fredrik Backman's latest novel, My Friends, is a touching story that revolves around four fourteen-year-old friends during one glorious, adolescent summer. In a working-class coastal town, Joar, Ted, ...
Read ReviewMary Oliver and "The Summer Day"
Fredrik Backman's new novel, My Friends, repeatedly quotes 'The Summer Day,' a well-known poem by poet Mary Oliver (1936-2019). Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio, a small, rural town less ...
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Not much about the COVID-19 pandemic could be called "lucky," but the fact humanity faced it in the 21st century—with all modern medicine's tools at our disposal—has made a ...
Read ReviewThomas Levenson begins So Very Small, his history of the development of germ theory, with an account of the Great Plague that struck London in 1665. Although this was the last major outbreak to hit ...
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Breathtaking in its simplicity and elegance, When the Harvest Comes is a story about love, rejection, and queer identity. The novel opens with Davis and Everett about to be married in the privileged ...
Read ReviewThe night terrors began when Davis Freeman was five years old, after his mother died of lymphoma. While he lay in the dark, his body felt like straw. His screams, catastrophic and haunting, echoed ...
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Fitzgerald evoked his most iconic character from the novel's title, but took a while letting him out on stage. For about 50 pages, the reader only knows about Gatsby what others say about him. Nghi Vo...
Read ReviewIn 1925, a few months after the publication of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald received a letter from T.S. Eliot in which the poet—already renowned for The Waste Land—described the ...
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The origin and development of the United States is usually explained primarily by looking back east towards Europe, but in America, América, historian Greg Grandin shifts the focus south to Latin...
Read ReviewTwo Major Works that Shaped American (and Américan) Thought
In America, América, historian Greg Grandin references two major intellectual works of history and philosophy that influenced the worldviews of peoples in the Americas and in Europe. These two ...
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Two years after the chaotic, self-imposed implosion of her most significant romantic relationship (an affair and breakup she dubs "the Maelstrom") and on the heels of yet another anxiety-provoking bad...
Read ReviewIn The Dry Season, Melissa Febos seeks out stories of creative women who might serve as models for the kind of artistic life she hopes to pursue following a period of self-enforced celibacy. One ...
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Making Friends Can Be Murder
by Kathleen West
Thirty-year-old Sarah Jones is drawn into a neighborhood murder mystery after befriending a deceptive con artist.
Ordinary Love
by Marie Rutkoski
A riveting story of class, ambition, and bisexuality—one woman risks everything for a second chance at first love.
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The Busybody Book Club
by Freya Sampson
They can't even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder?
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