Alka Joshi's The Secret Keeper of Jaipur is the sequel to her 2020 bestseller The Henna Artist and the middle entry in the planned Jaipur Trilogy. The story opens in 1969, 12 years after the ...
Read ReviewJaipur, Rajasthan (India's "Pink City")
Alka Joshi's novel The Secret Keeper of Jaipur takes place in the city of Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan and home to over three million people. Founded in 1727 by ...
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In the first pages of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, Kristen Radtke's sophomore work, she explains that radio operators call out across frequencies with what is known as a "CQ call,"...
Read ReviewAlthough the term 'graphic novel' implies works of fiction, lists of popular graphic novels are often dominated by memoirs and other nonfiction. You can find one such list here, and a short history of...
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If debates over women's reproductive health seem stuck in an earlier era — the fact that birth control pills require a prescription when condoms don't, the furor over Plan B abortifacients being...
Read ReviewMargaret Sanger and the Founding of Planned Parenthood
In 1916 in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood, three women opened a clinic providing information about birth control. Despite the fact that birth control has existed in various forms for millennia, at the ...
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fannone Jeffers' The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois explores the Black experience in America through the lens of a middle-class girl and her family. Ailey is the youngest of three daughters...
Read ReviewWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois (aka W.E.B. Du Bois) was a noted author, historian, activist and sociologist as well as a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You centers around four key characters, the most prominent of which are Eileen and Alice, both in their late 20s, who have been friends since their university days at ...
Read ReviewThe backdrop of Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You is the city of Dublin and its environs. Rooney herself lives in this UNESCO City of Literature, a metropolis that boasts a flourishing...
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
In the annals of Nazi crimes, the industrialized killing of human beings didn't begin with the Jewish concentration camps. In the early days of World War II, failed-artist-turned-Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ...
Read ReviewIn The Gallery of Miracles and Madness, Charlie English connects the psychological effects of World War I to the evolving art scene in the early decades of the 20th century. The war not only killed ...
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In Every Mirror She's Black
by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.
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