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Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel
by Juhea Kim
Strong on the History/Not So Much On the Romance (8/2/2021)
This work offers some great historical insight into Korea in the years of the Japanese Occupation and beyond. For an American audience, it will offer accounts of actions that few know about and fewer understand. There is an element of romance, but the stronger aspect of themore
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
by Olivia Laing
Everybody: A Book About Freedom...Which You Are Free To Think What You Will (5/8/2021)
This work is really more a collection of essays that all center on the theme of bodily freedom and how individuals manage to express that freedom. The connective tissue that (mostly) links these essays together is the life of psychoanalyst William Reich, and author Oliviamore
When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical that Changed the World (aka Footnotes)
by Caseen Gaines
Footnotes, or how Shuffle Along broke the color barrier of the Great White Way (3/11/2021)
Written on the centennial anniversary of the premiere of the musical Shuffle Along, this book describes the back story of the men behind the creation of Shuffle Along, how the musical came to revolutionize Broadway and changed the way that audiences viewed African Americanmore
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