Drama on the bus can be Shakespearean. You just want to go downtown, but on the way, you overhear a too-loud sob story from someone's phone call, or the guy sitting across from you is impersonating ...
Read ReviewIn Freya Sampson's novel The Lost Ticket, Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne is a central motif. The painting first comes up in a conversation between the character Frank and an admirer he encounters on...
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Emmaline Balakin believes in the power of the written word — books have changed her life. When the opportunity arises, she volunteers to serve as a librarian in a frontline hospital in France ...
Read ReviewThe War Librarian features quiet, bookish Emmaline Balakin, who, despite the dangers of World War I, chooses to set off on an adventure by serving as a volunteer librarian to American service members....
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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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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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