Accidental Activists
Collins shows that change, even of the smallest kind, comes at the cost of great dedication and even greater love. It... Read More
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Book of the Day
My Heart Hemmed In
Ndiaye’s novel is haunting in its strangeness and is pointed in its warnings—that happiness cannot come at the expense of one’s core.
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Race, Sexuality, Dispossession, Dead-End Liasons — The Stuff of Life
The books we feature here represent a huge variety, encompassing everything from a travel notebook to a set of personal essays. All these authors are consummate storytellers looking for the crucial moments that define a life.
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A Spotlight on Wayne State University Press
75 Years as a Voice for Diverse Detroit
Wayne State University Press keeps producing books of great quality. Its location in Michigan, with its diverse climate, landscape, and people, have made it an important voice for the history, culture, and environment of the Great Lakes State and beyond.
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Gift Books that Contain Larger Worlds
If you think about how big the world is, it’s pretty amazing that authors manage to put it into such small containers like books. These six gift books reviewed in our July/August issue capture large worlds between their pages.
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Immigrant Stories Inside Immigrant Stories
South Asian American Women Find Voice
There are immigrant stories, and then there are stories within immigrant stories. These tales of cultural transition are told through the perspective of South Asian Women, voices not often heard in American literature. We talk to the anthology's editor.
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IndieVoices Podcast: Autism Reads
Authors and Characters on the Spectrum
Between all the pet theories, and pages upon pages of speculating about autism's cause, often what is left out are the voices of autistic people themselves, or their families who can speak for them. Those are the voices we are featuring in our podcast.
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Graphic Novels: Black, White, and Shades of Gray
Wherever your moral compass code points, you’ll be able to find a graphic novel in these five reviewed in our July/August 2017 issue.
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Baby, The Thrill Ain't Never Gone
From gunfights to gangs, prostitution rings to psychology labs, these high-octane adventures have violent ends, and plenty of adrenaline in between.
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INDIES Awarded
Today, we announced the winners of our INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Congratulations to all the winners selected. They represent the best of indie publishing this past year.
City Folk and Country Folk
by Meg Nola
Quietly masterful, the novel contains rich details of nineteenth-century Russian life. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City... Read More
Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
Ikard’s book is an essential wake-up call to all white Americans who are not actively engaged in combating racism.... Read More
Christian Bend
Focusing on the significance of relationships, the novel resonates with truth and clarity. A breezy read full of... Read More
Flora of Middle-Earth
Flora of Middle-Earth resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love,... Read More
Keeping It Halal
by Amanda Adams
Keeping It Halal is compellingly relevant and paints a picture of the modern Muslim-American experience.... Read More
His Other Life
by Meg Nola
McCabe details a true story of love, loss, and a young woman’s tragic end, all through the mysteries of her... Read More
The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter
This is the story of a family and its struggle between old and new homelands, between idealism and reality. Bill... Read More