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Book Review
In Kathleen Fine’s thriller "Girl on Trial", a teenager is prosecuted for manslaughter. Emily is sixteen. On top of her more ordinary concerns, her mother, Debbie, is an alcoholic; she’s developing an addiction to alcohol herself;...
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Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur...
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"The Christmas Book" captures the nostalgia and iconography of Christmas in full-color pictorial splendor. With examples spanning from the tenth through twenty-first centuries, the book focuses most on the United States and Europe. After...
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In Shannon Takaoka’s charming novel "The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne", a struggling girl finds a magical journal that lets her rewrite her own life. In 1987—a period captured via references to music, fashion, and...
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by Rebecca Foster
In celebration of this conversation between Rebecca Foster and Julie Marie Wade, author of a spectacular collection of essays exploring identity, queer visibility, feminism, and so much more, we dusted off a proprietary poem which points...
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by Barbara Hodge
Polish’d / Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland / Michał Korkosz / The Experiment / Hardcover $32.50 (256pp) / 978-1-61519-995-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Acclaimed food blogger and columnist Michal Korkosz’s...
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by Barbara Hodge
Mudflowers / Aley Waterman / Rare Machines / Softcover $18.99 (230pp) / 978-1-4597-5152-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Aley Waterman’s striking novel Mudflowers, a woman finds love in the aftermath of her mother’s...
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by Michelle Anne Schingler
Misogyny. Alas, it didn’t have to play out that way. In this week’s interview, Nikki Marmery talks about a crucial period starting about 4000 BCE when patriarchy crept into the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia: “wherever it...
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