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by Kathy Young
Why We Struggle to Go Green / Hard Truths About the Clean Energy Transition / Thomas Manuel Ortiz / Stoney Creek Publishing / Softcover $26.95 (270pp) / 978-1-965766-28-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Thomas Ortiz’s Why We...
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With scathing insights into America’s commodification of tragedies, Ben Wickey’s "More Weight" is a humane, absorbing graphic novel. With dual storylines set in the 1860s and 1690s, this sobering text vivifies the Salem witch trials...
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by Michelle Anne Schingler
I write to you consumed by worry. I want to celebrate the beautiful stories in this issue, with their fairies and saints, their quests and luminescent LGBTQ+ love stories—and you should relish in each of those tales; there’s so much...
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Jewel tone, whimsical illustrations evocative of children’s classics vivify this lovely, surreal introduction to the ballet. In it, two children slip through a hedge to witness bunny rabbits pirouetting and pliéing their ways across...
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by Danielle Ballantyne
Editor Danielle Ballantyne Interviews Caitlin Billings, Author of In Our Blood / Know thy enemy. You know the phrase from Sun Tzu’s Art of War and it is incisive advice for anyone facing crisis or adversity of any kind. Today, we’re...
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by Luke Sutherland
“Syr Hayati Beker’s gleaming novella What a Fish Looks Like alchemizes confessional notes and remixed fairy tales to tell a story of queer survival amid ecological disaster. … passed notes, party invitations, and other ephemera...
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by Kathy Young
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This / Eugene Yelchin / Candlewick / Hardcover $22.99 (432pp) / 978-1-5362-1553-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An artist seeks freedom from oppressive Russian authorities in Eugene...
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The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his...
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