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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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When life changes in an instant, what happens next? More specifically, as Cebo Campbell asks in his debut novel Sky Full of Elephants, when white people of every age and every geographic location, on ...
Read ReviewThe Magnetic Pull of Historically Black Colleges
One of the first scenes in Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell takes place in Professor Charlie Brunton's lecture hall at Howard University. Howard is one of the oldest HBCUs (historically ...
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On May 4th, 1970, four Kent State University students were shot and killed and nine wounded by members of the Ohio National Guard during a campus standoff. In Brian VanDeMark's stunning new study, ...
Read ReviewOf all the unsettling photos taken at Kent State University on May 4th, 1970, one of them became the iconic image of unthinkable tragedy. In this photo, twenty-year-old student Jeff Miller lies face ...
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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 Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister
Five West Virginia siblings unearth secrets after the rupture of a supernatural bargain tying their fate to their land.
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Jesmyn Ward imagines the life of an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War in this instant classic.
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