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    Good Girl

    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 ...

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    Berlin Club Culture

    In 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 ...

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    Gliff

    A 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 ...

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    Red 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 ...

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    Dark Laboratory

    When 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 ...

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    Countertexts 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 ...

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    Invisible Cities

    Invisible 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. ...

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    Marco Polo

    Although 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 ...

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    The Breakthrough

    Stephen 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, ...

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    Daphne 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 ...

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    Giovanni's Room

    The 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 ...

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    Modern 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 ...

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