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    Open, Heaven

    Open, Heaven, the debut novel from Irish poet Seán Hewitt, opens with recent divorcé James returning to his hometown in northern England and contending with the intense memories his ...

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    Classics of Queer Irish Literature

    Ireland has an undeniably rich literary history across a wide range of fiction, drama, and poetry—this abundant legacy includes a number of noteworthy pieces of queer fiction and memoir. One of ...

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    My Friends

    Fredrik Backman's latest novel, My Friends, is a touching story that revolves around four fourteen-year-old friends during one glorious, adolescent summer. In a working-class coastal town, Joar, Ted, ...

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    Mary Oliver and "The Summer Day"

    Fredrik Backman's new novel, My Friends, repeatedly quotes 'The Summer Day,' a well-known poem by poet Mary Oliver (1936-2019). Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio, a small, rural town less ...

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    So Very Small

    Not much about the COVID-19 pandemic could be called "lucky," but the fact humanity faced it in the 21st century—with all modern medicine's tools at our disposal—has made a ...

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    Plague in the 21st Century

    Thomas Levenson begins So Very Small, his history of the development of germ theory, with an account of the Great Plague that struck London in 1665. Although this was the last major outbreak to hit ...

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    When the Harvest Comes

    Breathtaking in its simplicity and elegance, When the Harvest Comes is a story about love, rejection, and queer identity. The novel opens with Davis and Everett about to be married in the privileged ...

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    Fathers. Gay Sons. Silence.

    The night terrors began when Davis Freeman was five years old, after his mother died of lymphoma. While he lay in the dark, his body felt like straw. His screams, catastrophic and haunting, echoed ...

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    Don't Sleep with the Dead

    Fitzgerald evoked his most iconic character from the novel's title, but took a while letting him out on stage. For about 50 pages, the reader only knows about Gatsby what others say about him. Nghi Vo...

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    Reimagining The Great Gatsby

    In 1925, a few months after the publication of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald received a letter from T.S. Eliot in which the poet—already renowned for The Waste Land—described the ...

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    America, América

    The origin and development of the United States is usually explained primarily by looking back east towards Europe, but in America, América, historian Greg Grandin shifts the focus south to Latin...

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    Two Major Works that Shaped American (and Américan) Thought

    In America, América, historian Greg Grandin references two major intellectual works of history and philosophy that influenced the worldviews of peoples in the Americas and in Europe. These two ...

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