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    Are You Happy?

    Is anyone happy? The more we learn about people's lives, the harder that question becomes to answer. In Lori Ostlund's collection Are You Happy? we follow nine stories that are sincere, thoughtful, ...

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    The Reality of Writing Workshops

    Several stories in Lori Ostlund's Are You Happy? follow characters who are either teachers or students in writing workshops. Writing workshops are intended to help students strengthen their ...

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    The Names

    The prologue of Florence Knapp's marvelous debut, The Names, begins on October 16, 1987, the day after the Great Storm hit England. We meet Cora, a young woman of Irish descent, as she and her ...

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    Goya's Black Paintings

    In a key scene in Florence Knapp's novel The Names, two characters are in an art gallery viewing an exhibition. The author writes: 'They stop in front of a hideous image, a painting ...

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    The Afterlife of Malcolm X

    In The Afterlife of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker charts the ways that Malcolm X's views have been interpreted and mobilized to create new movements since his assassination in 1965. Many readers will know ...

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    The Nation of Islam

    Malcolm X rose to public prominence as one of the faces of the Nation of Islam, which is a Black nationalist and religious movement and organization. The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 by ...

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    Spent

    They say every author puts a little of themselves into their work, but the brilliant Alison Bechdel has taken the expression to a new level in Spent, a rollicking, metafictional graphic novel. Bechdel...

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    Alison Bechdel's Early Work: Dykes to Watch Out For

    Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel Spent revisits several of the beloved characters that Bechdel made somewhat famous in her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Though it was never ...

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    The Corruption of Hollis Brown

    "Corruption" seems like an accurate way to refer to the possession of a person's body against their will, which is what happens to the titular character in K. Ancrum's young adult novel The Corruption...

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    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    In The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum, Walt, a ghost who was born in approximately 1916, shares a body with Hollis, a teenage boy he possesses in order to survive. As the two are still ...

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    The True Happiness Company

    As a teenager, Veena Dinavahi was the kind of daughter most parents would kill for. She was heavily involved in extracurricular activities and thriving in her coursework—even taking upper-level ...

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    Self-help Cults

    Self-improvement is having a big moment. Life coaching is a multi-billion-dollar industry with more than 100,000 coaches practicing around the globe, self-help books are all over the bestseller lists,...

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