The captivating historical novel Yonder turns an intimate lens towards the tragedy and survivorship of American slaves. Jabari Asim sets his story at Placid Hall, a plantation owned by Randolph "...
Read ReviewHeartbreak Day and Family Separation During American Slavery
For American slaves, January 1 was a day to dread. For on that day, many were hired out to new plantations without warning, and some were sold off. Anxiety was rampant the evening before the new year,...
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"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."
—Sappho, fragment 147
"Who was Sappho?" asks Selby Wynn Schwartz in the prologue to After Sappho. An ...
Read ReviewSelby Wynn Schwartz's debut novel After Sappho reimagines the lives of early 20th century lesbian authors and artists. The novel tells the story of how these women ignited a radical feminist ...
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When a disembodied arm and leg wash ashore in Point Mettier, Alaska, most residents assume they belong to someone who died by suicide. But Detective Cara Kennedy, who comes to the town from Anchorage ...
Read ReviewNorth Korean Immigrants in the United States
In City Under One Roof, some characters living in the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska are hiding their status as undocumented North Korean immigrants. If their secret is discovered, they will face...
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Jas Hammonds' debut young adult novel We Deserve Monuments provides a fresh look at the coming-of-age experience in America today. Avery Armstrong is uprooted from her comfortable upper-middle-class ...
Read ReviewThe city versus country trope is as old as Aesop's fabled mice, yet the debate continues to warrant new narratives. In Jas Hammonds' We Deserve Monuments, the protagonist, Avery Armstrong, puts this ...
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Considering the articles in recent years regarding toy recalls or melamine-tainted milk products, Factory Girls serves as a timely reminder of the human story behind the Chinese ...
Read ReviewFactory Girls is an example of immersion journalism. Immersion journalism involves more depth than traditional newspaper reporting, which is limited by column space and time, and includes less of ...
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As a lover of both art and true crime media, art forgery stories are a goldmine for me. They have all the seediness of the criminal underworld, but centered around art. In my vision of the forgery ...
Read ReviewThe Famous Forgeries of Han van Meegeren
In Con/Artist, Tony Tetro explains the value of provenance, meaning how a painting came to be in a seller's possession. Sometimes, the provenance of a forgery is what we remember. In 1945, ...
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict
An explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?
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