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It does not surprise me that Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message is one of the most important books I've read this year. What does surprise me is that I can already feel how it has fundamentally shifted ...
Read ReviewPrimary Sources: Stories of Palestinian Life
Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message implores readers to consider listening to marginalized people speak on their own experiences. This seems uncontroversial until Coates sheds light on his findings that a ...
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Every July, I take on the overly ambitious goal of reading all of the novels chosen as longlist finalists for the celebrated Booker Prize award, and every year I fail miserably. This year, of the ...
Read ReviewIn the novel The House of Doors, Lesley Hamlyn volunteers as a translator for Sun Yat-sen's political movement in Penang, Malaysia. Sun Yat-sen is one of the foremost figures in Chinese political ...
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During the tumultuous last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a 17-year-old emperor known as Meiji ascends to the throne, restoring imperial rule in Japan. He commissions a puzzle box, rumored to hold an...
Read ReviewThe Meiji Restoration Era (1868–1889)
Fictionalized events during Emperor Meiji's ascent to power set the scene for Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Box, including the titular puzzle box at the heart of this thriller. The Meiji ...
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In 2020, after a lifetime of struggling with increasingly ill health, Sarah Leavitt's partner, Donimo, made the unthinkably difficult decision to end her life via medical assistance. The couple had ...
Read ReviewGraphic Memoirs Exploring Physical and Mental Health Struggles
In her graphic memoir Something, Not Nothing, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt chronicles her partner's declining health, her eventual death, and the immense grief that followed. The medium of graphic memoir&...
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Raul Palma's debut novel A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens introduces Hugo Contreras, who came to the United States from Bolivia as a child and is now a widower in Miami, where he staves off mountains of ...
Read ReviewBolivia's Cerro Rico and the Mining God El Tío
During the height of the Spanish colonization of Latin America in the 16th and early 17th centuries, conquistadors forced enslaved workers to extract vast amounts of silver from mines in Cerro Rico ('...
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The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut is an ambitious work that falls squarely into the category of fiction of ideas. This is the first book written in English by the Chilean author, whose last novel When We...
Read ReviewThe title of Benjamin Labatut's novel The MANIAC refers to the computer—the fastest of its kind at the time—developed by the Hungarian American physicist John von Neumann. During 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.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Lisa See's latest historical novel, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China.
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