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As Colum McCann's novel Twist opens, Anthony Fennell, a writer struggling with alcohol and career stagnation, has reluctantly agreed to write a long-form journalistic piece on the Georges Lecointe...
Read ReviewMuch of Colum McCann's novel Twist takes place on a cable repair ship sent to locate and fix a breakage in the underwater cables conveying the globe's digital information pathways. For many...
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Leah Sottile's Blazing Eye Sees All tells the story of Love Has Won, the cult started in the mid-2000s by Amy Carlson, a woman who called herself "Mother God" and claimed to be the reincarnated queen ...
Read ReviewAmy Carlson, the leader of the Love Has Won cult, claimed to have been many different figures in past lives—Jesus, Cleopatra, and Marilyn Monroe, to name just a few—but one of her most ...
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Ocean Vuong's second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens with nineteen-year-old Hai about to jump off a bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut when he hears a voice demanding to know what he's doing. ...
Read ReviewBJ, one of the characters in Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness, aspires to become a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment — more commonly known as the WWE. Merriam-...
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In Julie Chan Is Dead, Liann Zhang's debut novel, Julie Chan is working a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier when she receives a phone call from her twin sister Chloe, who quickly hangs up and ...
Read ReviewSocial Media Influencing: A New Type of Career
As popular social media websites, like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter (now X), have grown in the past two decades, their popularity and ubiquity have given rise to a whole new type of ...
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Sophie Gilbert traces the genesis of Girl on Girl to the early 2020s, when, in the wake of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign defeat and the dispiritingly short-lived reckonings of #MeToo, she ...
Read ReviewJennicam and the Rise of a Life Lived Online
If you think about internet influencers, you might first consider your favorite cookbook blogger, Instagram fashion icon, or YouTube content creator. But, as Sophie Gilbert notes in a chapter on the ...
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In 2025, a renowned fusion scientist named Hannah is working alone at her seaside cottage in Scotland, hoping for a breakthrough in her search for a clean energy source. One day, while sitting on the ...
Read ReviewFusion Science as a Clean Energy Source
Joe Mungo Reed's novel Terrestrial History begins with a fusion scientist named Hannah, who has retreated to her cottage in the Scottish Western Isles to finish a review of 'computing challenges in ...
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Awake in the Floating City
by Susanna Kwan
A debut novel about an artist and a 130-year-old woman bound by love and memory in a future, flooded San Francisco.
Serial Killer Games
by Kate Posey
A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry).
The Lilac People
by Milo Todd
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.
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