Category: Book Reviews
Twenty Four Poems by John Yamrus
The fact that this poem swept me into a multiverse of shared experience…underscores the value of Yamrus’s larger project, which is to see the beauty that surrounds us before it is too late.
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Growth by Karen DeBonis
I don’t know any parent who doesn’t have a few doubts about what they did or didn’t do to intervene on behalf of their child.
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Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
Our book reviewer, Elizabeth Spencer, shares her thoughts on “Gone Like Yesterday.”
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All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World goes to such unexpected places.
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Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
It’s hard to decide what to read next after you finish something as engrossing as this. If you are looking for that type of reading experience, I cannot recommend Fellowship Point enough.
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End of the World House by Adrienne Celt
End of the World House is a playful, compelling novel about intimacy and free will, about art as a bridge between times and realities.
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dahlia Harris
Is it better to choose the hard road of being honest and working for change? Or the easier road of going with the flow and fitting in?
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Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Derek Parker reviews a 2021 National Book Award winner by Elisa Shua Dusapin.
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The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter
Winter effectively depicts the push and pull between the ideals that people hold and the realities with which they—and particularly mothers—struggle.
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My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran
Kim Ae-ran’s novel is a compact and intense study of aging, living and loving. Aerum’s illness is not what defines him, just as Mira and Daesu aren’t defined by being young parents.
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
This novel is full of complexity, down to each of its characters. I can’t choose a favorite; I was rooting for all of them.
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The Fear of Everything: Stories by John McNally
This is a writer whose ability to engage the reader is constantly evolving as he connects the subjective with the universal, the commonplace with the bizarre.
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