Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose is a story of childhood friendship between narrator Agnès, a one-time prodigy from rural France credited with publishing a book at the age of 14, and Fabienne, who ...
Read ReviewIn Yiyun Li's novel The Book of Goose, narrator Agnès Moreau recollects entering a surprising phase as a 14-year-old author in post-World War II France when a book that she was secretly assisted ...
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Jerome Charyn made his name as an author of detective novels, and over the years he has taken his criminal muse to some unlikely places. A good example is his 2010 novel The Secret Life of Emily ...
Read ReviewMovie Columnist Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons (1881-1972) was a pioneer newspaperwoman, a famous movie columnist and, for many years, a principal purveyor of Hollywood gossip to the world. Nevertheless, according to Samantha ...
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In If I Survive You, author Jonathan Escoffery portrays a family falling apart with grace. Main character Trelawny, the sensitive second son of Jamaican immigrants, endures racism and confusion. His ...
Read ReviewThe Rise of Vehicular Homelessness in the U.S.
In 2018, in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, a woman named Sabrina Tate died inside her RV. She was almost 28 years old. A chronic drug user, Sabrina may have been killed by an infection. Two men ...
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
'Everybody got a story, everybody got a tale / Question is: Is it despair or prevail?' These last lines of a short introduction in verse set up Sidik Fofana's aim: to depict the shifting ...
Read ReviewIn Sidik Fofana's Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, gentrification and rent rises pose a threat to the struggling characters living in an apartment building in Harlem. New York City and some ...
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Fire Season is a thoroughly enjoyable novel that touches upon multiple genres and themes. It initially presents itself as historical fiction, but then weaves in supernatural elements tied to feminist ...
Read ReviewThe Great Spokane Falls Fire of 1889
Fire Season is set in the late 1880s and features a historical backdrop of immense changes — both metaphorical and literal — in Spokane Falls, Washington. It was a time when Washington was...
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In The Story of Russia, British historian and writer Orlando Figes shares panoramic and authoritative insight into the heritage of this vast and complex country. Figes posits the theory that an ...
Read ReviewThe bylina, an Old Russian form of epic poetry or song, is referenced in The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes, in which the author notes its ideological significance. The word 'bylina' (plural:...
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
From the author of Little Fires Everywhere, the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
The Bell in the Lake
by Lars Mytting
The engrossing epic novel - a #1 bestseller in Norway - of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village's mystical church bells.
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A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.
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