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Sophie Gilbert traces the genesis of Girl on Girl to the early 2020s, when, in the wake of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign defeat and the dispiritingly short-lived reckonings of #MeToo, she ...
Read ReviewJennicam and the Rise of a Life Lived Online
If you think about internet influencers, you might first consider your favorite cookbook blogger, Instagram fashion icon, or YouTube content creator. But, as Sophie Gilbert notes in a chapter on the ...
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In 2025, a renowned fusion scientist named Hannah is working alone at her seaside cottage in Scotland, hoping for a breakthrough in her search for a clean energy source. One day, while sitting on the ...
Read ReviewFusion Science as a Clean Energy Source
Joe Mungo Reed's novel Terrestrial History begins with a fusion scientist named Hannah, who has retreated to her cottage in the Scottish Western Isles to finish a review of 'computing challenges in ...
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Old School Indian is an engrossing debut novel about a middle-aged bookseller returning to the home that raised him. Abe Jacobs eagerly left the Ahkwesáhsne reservation at the age of eighteen, ...
Read Review"Native American" Is Complicated
In the 1960s and 1970s, the term 'Native American' was popularized. It became the politically correct way to refer to the hundreds of tribes that make up the Native population in the United States, ...
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Allegra Goodman's novel Isola tells the story of Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, a young noblewoman who lived in France during the 16th century. According to contemporary accounts, she fell in ...
Read ReviewAllegra Goodman's novel Isola concerns Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval (born c. 1515), a French noblewoman who was marooned on a deserted island with her lover while on a voyage to New France ...
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The beginning of Sarah Maria Griffin's Eat the Ones You Love is suffused with a draining pessimism: Shell, the main character, has lost her dream job in graphic design, broken up with her longtime ...
Read ReviewCarnivorous Plants: How They Trap and Eat Their Prey
The main horror of Eat the Ones You Love comes from a ravenous orchid that can only be truly satisfied by human meat. It's a myth that some orchid species consume meat, but other carnivorous plants do...
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Rachel Khong's sophomore novel Real Americans is an intergenerational saga that questions racial and cultural identity and our control over our destinies. Over the course of the book, we meet May, her...
Read ReviewChinese Science During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
May, the matriarch of Rachel Khong's Real Americans, is born into a poor rural Chinese family in the 1950s. Her fate is foretold by her mother's life: wake before dawn to cook breakfast, clean up ...
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Ginseng Roots
by Craig Thompson
A new graphic memoir from the author of Blankets and Habibi about class, childhood labor, and Wisconsin’s ginseng industry.
The Original Daughter
by Jemimah Wei
A dazzling debut by Jemimah Wei about ambition, sisterhood, and family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Praised by Parade and The New York Times Book Review, this debut features a 1960s scientist turned TV cooking star.
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