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At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his early forties, is stricken with acute abdominal pain. The COVID pandemic is raging and he's reluctant to...
Read ReviewIn Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the unnamed protagonist—facing a difficult and uncertain medical diagnosis—finds solace in a poem by the poet George Oppen. The poem is only a ...
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In November 1957, Kathleen and Virgil Beckett are living at Acropolis Place, an apartment complex in Newark, Delaware, an arrangement that was supposed to be temporary after their move from Rhode ...
Read ReviewThough the story unfolds largely through flashbacks, the present-day events of The Most occur on November 3, 1957, which is the day the Soviet Union launched its satellite Sputnik 2 into space. ...
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Unsurprisingly, the 21st century has been something of a boom time for environmental disaster in fiction. The vein of anxiety over what humans are doing to the planet runs deep—stretching back ...
Read ReviewFernanda Trías's Pink Slime takes its title from the nickname of Meatrite, a fictional meat paste developed by the government to combat food shortages during an environmental collapse. ...
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The idea of Earth as one living, breathing organism is an age-old one, found in belief systems all over the world. Yet when it was first seriously proposed as a scientific hypothesis in the 1970s&#...
Read ReviewThe Promise and Peril of the Haber-Bosch Process
As Ferris Jabr describes in Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, he and his spouse discovered an all-too-common problem when they tried to plant a new garden—ruined, lifeless soil. ...
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel, Long Island Compromise, is centered around the Fletchers, a wealthy Jewish American family navigating their lives years after Carl Fletcher, the patriarch and one...
Read ReviewTaffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise follows the Fletcher family, with their Jewish identity acting as one of the central themes. When someone in the family faces a mishap, they allude to a ...
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit
The life of legendary American educator and Black civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) receives long overdue attention in historian Noliwe Rook's poignantly personal A Passionate Mind...
Read ReviewThe Mary McLeod Bethune Statue at the U.S. Capitol
As Noliwe Rooks rightly asserts in her book A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a woman of many 'firsts.' Even though she died in 1955, Bethune made another ...
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou Ishida
Discover the bestselling Japanese novel celebrating the healing power of cats.
The Story Collector
by Evie Woods
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