Only a few paragraphs into Aria Aber's Good Girl, the sentences begin to vibrate with the bass-heavy techno that propels this formidable debut forward. The narrator, Nila, daughter of Afghan doctors ...
Read ReviewIn Aria Aber's Good Girl, narrator Nila spends her teenage years in the labyrinths of Berlin's legendary techno clubs. Awash with drugs and unrestrained by straight-laced sexual mores, the Berlin ...
Read ArticleA four-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, Smith is perhaps best known for her seasonal quartet, a series of novels, each named for a season of the year, produced as a sort of experiment in ...
Read ReviewRed Lines and Anticipatory Obedience
In Ali Smith's Gliff, two children living in a sinister surveillance state in the not-too-distant future return home to find a line of red paint circling their house. In this dystopian society where ...
Read ArticleWhen did globalization begin? Many authorities would place its start somewhere in the 20th century. But what if instead we think of the globalized modern era as beginning with Christopher Columbus's ...
Read ReviewCountertexts and Shifting Perspectives
Dark Laboratory is an incredible reconfiguring of a historical moment that provides a new understanding of the current climate crisis and how it is intertwined with the legacies of colonialism. One ...
Read ArticleInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1923-1985) details a series of conversations between the 13th-century figures Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, the legendary Italian explorer. ...
Read ReviewAlthough Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities concerns itself with two real people, it is far from historical fiction. The Marco Polo who describes city after fantastical city to Kublai Khan broadly ...
Read ArticleStephen Saunders is an electronics engineer, dispatched to a sparsely populated research facility in rural England as a favor to his boss. Reluctant from the get-go, he arrives to find James MacLean, ...
Read ReviewDaphne du Maurier: A Brief History
Author Daphne du Maurier belonged to a rich dynasty of storytellers and creatives. Her parents, Gerald du Maurier and Muriel Beaumont, both led successful acting careers. Her grandfather, George ...
Read ArticleThe first time I read James Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room, I was around the same age as the book's protagonist David, a twenty-something American living in 1950s Paris who becomes reluctantly ...
Read ReviewModern Perspectives on Giovanni's Room
While rereading and reviewing Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, a book that has stayed with me for many years, I wanted to see what others have taken away from the novel, an early work of queer ...
Read ArticleHarlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
The story of a black girl in America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others. First published 1970; won the 1993 Nobel Prize.
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