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The canon of great nature writing includes the likes of Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the latter being a seminal force in awakening the public's environmental ...
Read ReviewThe Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
When we think about how pioneers changed the American frontier — or if we think about it — we may picture the hunting of bison herds as one of the biggest environmental changes wrought...
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The plot of Toni Morrison's first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), focuses on 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Ignored and unloved, the product of a dysfunctional family, she believes herself to be ugly ...
Read ReviewToni Morrison & The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison is the author of 11 works of fiction as well as a number of books and essays. She's best known for her novel Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Morrison received...
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Mystery writer Agatha Christie's ongoing relevance is evident in recent film adaptations of her work, such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, as well as in hit homage productions, ...
Read ReviewThe Golden Age of Detective Fiction & Agatha Christie's Legacy
In the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, people sought comfort and escapism in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty. Detective fiction offered a perfect outlet, with meticulously plotted ...
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I was working in a small Seattle bookshop in 1992 when the novel Hideous Kinky by British author Esther Freud was published. I would not fall in love with it until many years later, however, because ...
Read ReviewSufism and the Hippie Movement
In the novel Hideous Kinky, a young mother living in Morocco becomes interested in Sufism and takes her daughter with her to study at a zaouia, or Sufi mosque. Sufism is a form of Islamic mysticism or...
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By the mid-twentieth century, cheap pulp fiction novels had developed a massive readership and there was a genre for everyone. Crime and police procedurals, stories focused on war, science fiction, ...
Read ReviewThe Publication History of The Price of Salt, or Carol
When Patricia Highsmith finished The Price of Salt in 1951, the manuscript was rejected by her publisher, Harper Bros., who had just put out her first hit novel Strangers on a Train. She sent the ...
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In 2024, the short story White Nights, an early Dostoevsky work, became popular on BookTok, a corner of TikTok in which people discuss and recommend books; users—many of whom posted videos of ...
Read ReviewIn 2024, Dostoevsky's short story White Nights became popular on BookTok, the corner of TikTok populated by readers. BookTok users post videos of themselves recommending books, discussing books, ...
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Harlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
Beast of the North Woods
by Annelise Ryan
When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature.
The Wager
by David Grann
From the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a gripping story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
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From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.
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