While there has been a concerted effort in recent years to educate the nation about what happened during the Tulsa Race Massacre from May 31-June 1, 1921, the search for the whole truth, including the...
Read ReviewCultural Recognition of the Tulsa Race Massacre
In The Ground Breaking, Scott Ellsworth notes that for many Americans, the first exposure they received to the events of 1921 in Tulsa came from a dramatic portrayal on an episode of the HBO series ...
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen's novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a historical fiction tale set in the 17th century in what is now Southwest Germany. Katharina Kepler, mother of famed astronomer Johannes...
Read ReviewThe narrator of Rivka Galchen's novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is Katharina Kepler, mother of noted astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler was born in 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Wü...
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In Dario Diofebi's novel Paradise, Nevada, the neon allure of Las Vegas is pulled back to reveal workers, strivers, gamblers and bit-part characters populating the famous strip. Each of his ...
Read ReviewA History of the Vegas Showgirl
Dario Diofebi's novel Paradise, Nevada takes a look into the world of the Las Vegas working woman, including the iconic Vegas showgirl. The last traditional showgirl extravaganza, 'Jubilee,' was ...
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Spanning over 30 years, Eric Nguyen's debut novel Things We Lost to the Water is epic in scope but finely tuned into its characters' perceptions, anxieties and fraught relationships. It is an ...
Read ReviewVillage de L'Est and Hurricane Katrina
When the Vietnamese family depicted in Things We Lost to the Water arrives in New Orleans, they move into an apartment building called Versailles located in the eastern part of the city. The ...
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Within the general arc of many well-established and chronicled historical events is oral history's wonderful ability to home in on nuances, illuminating particular situations and personalities that ...
Read ReviewIn The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, Opal Jewel finds solace in Paris when her music partner, Nev Charles, has become increasingly unreliable due to an opioid addiction. It begins at Versailles with...
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Francisco Goldman's Monkey Boy exists in the liminal space between memoir and fiction. Like Goldman himself, son of a Jewish immigrant father from Ukraine and a Catholic immigrant mother from ...
Read ReviewThe narrator of Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel Monkey Boy, like Goldman himself, was a journalist who reported on the Guatemalan Civil War. The brutal war began in 1960 and lasted a total ...
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Morningside Heights
by Joshua Henkin
A tender and big-hearted novel about love in the face of loss, from the award-winning author of The World Without You.
At the Chinese Table
by Carolyn Phillips
Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story—A beautifully told account of China's cuisines with recipes.
Ariadne
by Jennifer Saint
A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.
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