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Colloquially, "crocodile tears" are false ones. But the emotion is all genuine in Alligator Tears. It's still an appropriate title for Edgar Gomez's second memoir, though — not just because it's...
Read ReviewCompared to a traditional memoir, a memoir-in-essays allows for a more thematic approach and a diversity of styles and formats. It generally prioritizes ideas and memorable scenes or vignettes, and ...
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For Amber and Nico, eighth grade and middle school end on a high note: after a sugar-driven, end-of-year class trip at the beach, they confess their feelings for each other, become a couple, and spend...
Read ReviewDreaming About Video Games: The Tetris Effect
In Dreamover, the dreamscapes Amber and Nico experience draw heavily from the imagery and mechanisms encountered in video games. In fact, within the past few decades, scientists and researchers ...
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Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina was an award-winning novelist and children's author living in Kyiv. Like so many others, her life changed on February 24, 2022, when Russian bombs began falling on her country. ...
Read ReviewA Brief History of Events Leading Up to the Russia-Ukraine War
Victoria Amelina (1986–2023) was a Ukrainian novelist. She spent the last months of her life researching war crimes committed by Russian soldiers during their invasion of her country. Those ...
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An illicit affair precipitates the drama in A Calamity of Noble Houses by Amira Ghenim. On December 7, 1935, a letter hidden between several loaves of bread arrives at the wealthy Ennaifer household. ...
Read ReviewIs Tunisian Female Independence Slipping Away?
The Republic of Tunisia is a small country in Northern Africa. It was the birthplace of the 2010-11 Arab Spring movement, which saw uprisings due to economic hardship and corruption. Though much ...
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Sharing your life with a cat is an enlightening experience and a true testament to unconditional love. In Mayumi Inaba's modern Japanese classic, Mornings Without Mii (2001) (now translated into ...
Read ReviewJapanese people have been writing about cats for a long time. In 889, Japanese Emperor Uda wrote in his journal: 'Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat.' He proceeded to...
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In Vienna, as in many other cities in Europe, the Second World War did not truly end in 1945, but continued to sink its icy talons deep into a society still traumatized many years after its official ...
Read ReviewA Short History of Vienna After the Second World War
The novel The Café with No Name is set in Vienna from 1966 to 1976. To fully immerse oneself in the atmosphere of the novel, it may be helpful to review a short history of Austria and its ...
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Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, and loss through one woman's friendship with a wild hare.
Girl Falling
by Hayley Scrivenor
The USA Today bestselling author of Dirt Creek returns with a story of grief and truth.
The Jackal's Mistress
by Chris Bohjalian
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hour of the Witch, a Civil War love story of a Confederate wife and a wounded Yankee.
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