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    The Afterlife of Malcolm X

    In The Afterlife of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker charts the ways that Malcolm X's views have been interpreted and mobilized to create new movements since his assassination in 1965. Many readers will know ...

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    The Nation of Islam

    Malcolm X rose to public prominence as one of the faces of the Nation of Islam, which is a Black nationalist and religious movement and organization. The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 by ...

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    Spent

    They say every author puts a little of themselves into their work, but the brilliant Alison Bechdel has taken the expression to a new level in Spent, a rollicking, metafictional graphic novel. Bechdel...

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    Alison Bechdel's Early Work: Dykes to Watch Out For

    Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel Spent revisits several of the beloved characters that Bechdel made somewhat famous in her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Though it was never ...

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    The Corruption of Hollis Brown

    "Corruption" seems like an accurate way to refer to the possession of a person's body against their will, which is what happens to the titular character in K. Ancrum's young adult novel The Corruption...

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    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    In The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum, Walt, a ghost who was born in approximately 1916, shares a body with Hollis, a teenage boy he possesses in order to survive. As the two are still ...

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    The True Happiness Company

    As a teenager, Veena Dinavahi was the kind of daughter most parents would kill for. She was heavily involved in extracurricular activities and thriving in her coursework—even taking upper-level ...

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    Self-help Cults

    Self-improvement is having a big moment. Life coaching is a multi-billion-dollar industry with more than 100,000 coaches practicing around the globe, self-help books are all over the bestseller lists,...

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    Women of War

    The invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, Pearl Harbor—everyone knows these pivotal battles from World War II. Fewer people, however, might be familiar with the battles that led to the ...

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    A Women in Resistance Reading List

    Suzanne Cope's Women of War details the efforts of four female resistance fighters in Italy during World War II, but it also highlights the efforts of countless unnamed women who supported ...

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    Vanishing World

    In the alternative version of Japan in Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World, the physical act of sex has become outdated—unnecessary and somewhat taboo. Marriages are purely economic arrangements, ...

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    Could Artificial Wombs Become a Reality?

    In her novel Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata presents an alternate version of the present, in which most children are conceived either via artificial insemination or using newly available artificial ...

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May 21, 2025

The BookBrowse Review

May 21, 2025

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including The Names by Florence Knapp, This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson, and The Afterlife of Malcolm X by Mark Whitaker. We also bring you our list of Book Clubs' All-Time Favorite Books, previews of upcoming books, book club recommendations, and more.

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  • Book Jacket: The Alternatives
  • Book Jacket: Table for Two
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  • Book Jacket: Becoming Earth
  • Book Jacket: A Short Walk Through a Wide World
  • Book Jacket: Lessons in Chemistry
  • Book Jacket: The Alternatives
  • Book Jacket: Table for Two
  • Book Jacket: It. Goes. So. Fast.
  • Book Jacket: Becoming Earth
  • Book Jacket: A Short Walk Through a Wide World
  • Book Jacket: Lessons in Chemistry
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