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Money has always been bound up with marriage, for reasons of lineage and inheritance and more. The two concepts can become conflated, mirror one another, can each make the need for the other disappear...
Read ReviewJan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (1434)
In The Original by Nell Stevens, Grace Inderwick, who lives a privileged but dreary existence with her aunt in England at the turn of the 20th century, dreams of making an independent life for herself...
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In Susan Choi's Flashlight, ten-year-old Louisa, the daughter of a Japanese-born Korean man and a white woman from the American Midwest, is found unconscious on a beach in Japan—her father, who ...
Read ReviewKorean Language Loss Under Japanese Colonialism and Beyond
In Susan Choi's Flashlight, main character Seok, later referred to as Serk, spends his childhood with his Korean family in Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He attends a Japanese school, ...
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The title of Hot Girls with Balls is clearly meant to grab the reader's attention and inspire questions about the meaning of its double (triple?) entendre. It refers to the protagonists, two Asian ...
Read ReviewTrans People Have Always Played Sports: Women Breaking Barriers
In Hot Girls with Balls, author Benedict Nguyễn chooses to depict her protagonists, two star athletes who happen to both be Asian trans women, as competitors in the professional men's ...
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Jayson Greene's debut novel UnWorld is set in a speculative near future in which people can create digital copies of their memories and consciousness. But when these "uploads" proved to be sentient ...
Read ReviewCould Mind Uploading Become a Reality?
In Jayson Greene's novel UnWorld, people can create sentient copies of their memories. The concept of creating a digital afterlife may sound strictly from the realm of science fiction, but ...
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How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of Anders, a poor white boy from Illinois who, like his family members before him, twirls flags during war. Naive, garrulous, and focused above all on self-...
Read ReviewAnders, the protagonist of Dennard Dayle's How to Dodge a Cannonball, describes himself as a 'flag-twirler': he twirls flags for the Union, then the Confederacy, then the Union again. Throughout ...
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Taylor Jenkins Reid's new novel, Atmosphere, opens with a bang—literally. It's 1984, and astronaut Joan Goodwin is acting as NASA Command's CAPCOM ("Capsule Communications," the person who ...
Read ReviewSally Ride, First American Woman in Space
Joan Goodwin, the protagonist of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere, applies to NASA to be one of America's first female astronauts and is accepted to the program as part of Group 9. Group 8 (...
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The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
by Liza Tully
A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.
Angelica
by Molly Beer
A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's influential sister-in-law.
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Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)
by Clare Leslie Hall
A love triangle reveals deadly secrets in this thriller for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.
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