After years of feeling like an outcast, Deka wants nothing more than to pass through the Ritual of Purity so that she can become a recognized member of her village in the kingdom of Otera. In Otera, ...
Read ReviewMonstrously Powerful: Patriarchy and the Demonization of Women
In a letter addressed to readers in The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna writes that the book is 'at its heart…an examination of patriarchy. How does it form? What supports it? How do women survive ...
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What makes humans human? It's a mystery that has inspired philosophers and driven scientific endeavor. The discovery of DNA in the 1950s provided a giant leap forward in answering that question, and ...
Read ReviewConflicts Over Credit: CRISPR and HIV
When a scientific breakthrough is achieved, it can be a moment of major celebration. Depending on the implications of that advancement, previously unknown individuals can find themselves vaulted into ...
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Popular science books represent an important niche in non-fiction. They build a bridge between academic journals that may only be accessible to readers with a PhD of their own and the layperson who is...
Read ReviewWoven into Guido Tonelli's Genesis are origin myths from different cultures and religions throughout history. He frames his work using the first book of the Hebrew Bible and often brings up creation ...
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Charles Person was just 18 years old in 1961 when he became the youngest of the first wave of "Freedom Riders" – men and women who boarded interstate buses in America's South with the intent of ...
Read ReviewHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
In his memoir Buses Are a Comin', Charles Person explains that he got involved with the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1960s through fellow students at his school, Morehouse College, ...
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Angeline Boulley's young adult novel Firekeeper's Daughter follows 18-year-old Daunis — biracial member of the Ojibwe tribe, former ice hockey star and traditional herbal medicine savant —...
Read ReviewMuskiiki: The Four Sacred Ojibwe Medicines
In Firekeeper's Daughter, Daunis is interested in how her fellow Ojibwe tribe members use medicinal herbs. She chooses to study pre-med courses and plant biology at college so that she may go on to ...
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Our unnamed narrator is a young French-Korean woman who works at a guest house in Sokcho, a popular tourist spot that lies on the border between South and North Korea. Kerrand, a French graphic ...
Read ReviewGrowing Support for Translated Literature
In 2007, the University of Rochester launched Three Percent, an online database that aimed to strengthen support for translated literature within the US market, supplementing the work of their ...
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The Girl in His Shadow
by Audrey Blake
The story of one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her.
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"Remarkable debut...a nearly flawless tale of loss...and redemption."
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