Lily Hoang’s bleak, unrelenting tale of infanticide, Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s novel-in-verse, and books one and two of …
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Gabrielle Union's memoir on motherhood, a coming-of-age novella set in mid-century Mexico City, and short stories…
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We dive into Katie Kitamura's latest novel, Intimacies, and revisit Tolkien's The Silmarillion
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Scientists are divided about what we should call the current geographic time period. Most argue it’s the Holocene,…
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Sasha Marcus, a wellness influencer on the brink of her big break, has been canceled. Enter Dyson, her childhood…
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As Ready Player One’s Ernest Cline is to outdated pop culture references, Andy Weir is to the science of space. The…
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You’d think that once someone committed to embodying an archetype of forbidden and mysterious power, they’d relax a…
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“Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart.” Wandering the aisles of the pan-Asian grocery store, Michelle Zauner sees…
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Hummingbird Salamander, it should be said straightaway, is a pulpy page-turner with as many twists, double-crosses,…
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In the title story of I’m Waiting For You, the first of Korean science fiction writer Kim Bo-Young’s works to be…
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The first thing one notices after opening Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, Of Women And Salt, is a small family tree.…
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Pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s last few books have been about fairly recent, extraordinarily…
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Mona, the third novel from Argentinean writer Pola Oloixarac, is as restless as its protagonist. At an esteemed…
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The mega-corp future that cyberpunk predicted is already here, but instead of fiber-optic mohawks and cybernetic eye…
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In the compulsively readable Infinite Country, author Patricia Engel travels between all manner of borders,…