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In Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's 2018 lightly dystopian novel, a ragtag group of young people crisscross Europe searching for anyone who speaks the lost language from a disappeared ...
Read ReviewIn Yoko Tawada's novels Scattered All Over the Earth and Suggested in the Stars, characters retell stories from the Kojiki, translated as 'Records of Ancient Matters' or 'Records of Ancient Things...
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"No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister" is a wry aphorism that appears late in the novel Shred Sisters. Over the course of about two decades, there is much heartache for the Shred ...
Read ReviewGrove Press, the publisher of Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters, formed in New York City in 1947. Four years later, it was purchased by Barnet Lee 'Barney' Rosset, Jr., who took chances by publishing ...
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Rivers Solomon's novel Model Home opens with a chilling and mesmerizing line: "Maybe my mother is God, and that's why nothing I do pleases her." The book is narrated by Ezri Maxwell, who grew up Black...
Read ReviewA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
In Rivers Solomon's novel Model Home, main character Ezri Maxwell reflects on Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun — about a Black family living in Chicago after World War II, the ...
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Permit me to break the fourth wall. Like any good reviewer, I aim to analyze a book dispassionately, on its own terms. But personally, the true sign of a powerful work of fiction is if I dream about ...
Read ReviewThe Dangers of Roundup Ready Seeds
In Louise Erdrich's novel The Mighty Red, a rural community in North Dakota grapples with common problems facing agricultural centers—the bankruptcy of small farms and resulting consolidation ...
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When male suitors intended for her older sisters spread a rumor that Psyche's beauty surpasses that of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty herself, Psyche is forced to endure the daily crowds of ...
Read ReviewThe Greek Myth of Eros and Psyche
In the original Greek myth that The Palace of Eros retells, Psyche is the youngest daughter of a king and the most beautiful woman in all the land. She is mistaken for Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty...
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A young man identifying as a feminist tumbles down the incel rabbit hole after a lifetime of sexual and romantic rejection. A woman alienates friends and potential future partners after a one-night ...
Read ReviewThe final, titular story of Tony Tulathimutte's collection Rejection is styled as a letter from a publisher explaining to the author why they will not be publishing the book. This form is used as ...
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In the Garden of Monsters
by Crystal King
A woman with no past, a man who knows her, and a monstrous garden that separates their worlds.
The Naming Song
by Jedediah Berry
Miyazaki meets Guillermo del Toro.
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The 1619 Project
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
An impactful expansion of groundbreaking journalism, The 1619 Project offers a revealing vision of America's past and present.
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