Don’t Think, Dear by Alice Robb
Alice Robb has created a fascinating, insightful journalistic exploration that I promise will hold your interest whether ballet appeals to you or not. I have never been a fan of ballet...
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Every Man a King by Walter Mosley
Every Man a King is the title of a radio address delivered in 1934 by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. In the speech, Senator Long railed against the concentration of wealth...
The Snow Hare by Paula Lichtarowicz
Most of the novels I’ve read set just before, during, and/or after World War II, involve events taking place in Great Britain or Germany, so The Snow Hare, a brutal but...
The Weekend: A Novel by Charlotte Wood
Let us begin with Wendy, on her way to Sylvie and Gail’s beach house, driving her (way past its sell date) car. Sylvie has recently died, and her partner Gail has...
South to America: Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
It happened not long after I made the South my home. I joined others in my book club for a meal at a local restaurant, a break from discussing assigned novels....
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Winter Counts is a fiction story centered on Virgil Wounded Horse and his nephew Nathan, members of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. Virgil works as a private vigilante on the Rosebud Reservation...
The Furrows: An Elergy by Namwali Serpell
The novel The Furrows was inspired by the death of Namwali Serpell’s sister and the reality that: …people do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of...
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
This is a story about an ogress. Like all ogres, she spoke little and thought much. She was careful and considerate. Her heavy feet trod lightly on the ground. [p. 1]...
Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery by Nev March
Indian American author Nev March’s debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay, is the winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and a nominee for both an...
Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
These little nuggets of history that we don’t really talk about. We go to school, we learn all these facts….but we don’t learn these personal stories that become [the foundation for]...
