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Kristin Hannah's latest historical epic, The Women, is a story of how a war shaped a generation and a tribute to all the women who served in the Vietnam War. Hannah tells the story of Frances &...
Read ReviewIn Kristin Hannah's The Women, nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps and is shipped overseas to serve as a combat nurse in the Vietnam War. Upon returning ...
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By 1775, 48-year-old Captain James Cook had completed two highly successful voyages of discovery and had earned a comfortable retirement. The Admiralty gave him a plum position: an honorary post at ...
Read ReviewHampton Sides' book The Wide Wide Sea records the third and final voyage of Captain James Cook and relays some of the exploits of his crew aboard the HMS Resolution. One of Cook's key ...
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The title of Hisham Matar's My Friends takes on affectionate but mournful tones as its story unfolds. For the narrator, Khaled, friendships have been both fundamentally necessary and painful. When we ...
Read ReviewAbu al-Ala al-Ma'arri and The Epistle of Forgiveness
In My Friends by Hisham Matar, the classical Arabic poem The Epistle of Forgiveness (Risalat al-Ghufran) by the Syrian writer Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri makes multiple appearances. Main character Khaled ...
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The Oscar-nominated film American Fiction (2023) and the Percival Everett novel it was based on, Erasure (2001), are about whose voices are heard and in what context. In the movie, Jeffrey Wright and ...
Read ReviewReimagining the Classics from a New Perspective
Percival Everett's James is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's enslaved companion Jim. This kind of reconfiguration is a common source of inspiration ...
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Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's But the Girl begins with the real-life disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In March 2014, the passenger jet went missing in transit from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The ...
Read ReviewHow to Read Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
In Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's novel But the Girl, the main character and first-person narrator is writing her PhD thesis on the work of Sylvia Plath. Plath is an iconic writer whose poetry is considered ...
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On the 17th of January, 2024, colleagues of Alexei Navalny posted a message to his Instagram account. Being held in a remote penal colony beyond the arctic circle, the Russian opposition leader was ...
Read ReviewThe 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis
Patriot by Alexei Navalny covers the Russian opposition leader's life from his childhood in the USSR in the 1980s to his final days in an Arctic penal colony in 2024. One important moment in the ...
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Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
Libby Lost and Found
by Stephanie Booth
Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love.
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In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
In Our Midst follows a German immigrant family’s fight for freedom after their internment post–Pearl Harbor.
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