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    The Emperor of Gladness

    Ocean Vuong's second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens with nineteen-year-old Hai about to jump off a bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut when he hears a voice demanding to know what he's doing. ...

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    How to Become a WWE Star

    BJ, one of the characters in Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness, aspires to become a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment — more commonly known as the WWE. Merriam-...

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    Julie Chan Is Dead

    In Julie Chan Is Dead, Liann Zhang's debut novel, Julie Chan is working a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier when she receives a phone call from her twin sister Chloe, who quickly hangs up and ...

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    Social Media Influencing: A New Type of Career

    As popular social media websites, like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter (now X), have grown in the past two decades, their popularity and ubiquity have given rise to a whole new type of ...

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    Girl on Girl

    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 ...

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    Jennicam 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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    Terrestrial History

    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 ...

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    Fusion 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

    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, ...

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    "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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    Isola

    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 ...

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    Queen Marguerite of Navarre

    Allegra 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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May 07, 2025

The BookBrowse Review

May 07, 2025

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, and Twist by Colum McCann. We also bring you our list of May Books We're Excited About, previews of upcoming books, fresh First Impressions titles, and more.

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