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The Invisible Drama
"The Invisible Drama" shows women that when they control their anxiety, they can “become all they dare to imagine.” Carol Becker’s "The Invisible Drama" is a richly insightful analysis of women’s collective psyche and the ways in...
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Brother and the Dancer
Norris’s writing is meticulous and incisive. His convincing passages convey philosophic truths about the consequence of choice and the quest for self-awareness. Keenan Norris’s debut novel is an engaging, eloquent, and insightful...
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Being Dead in South Carolina
Bewilderment, frustration, and despair keep the men in these stories on edge with only brief moments of hope to move them forward. Male protagonists in crisis comprise the majority of heartrending short stories in Jacob White’s debut...
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Growing Food in Hotter, Drier Land
When author and desert farmer Gary Paul Nabhan realized several years ago that climate change “would bear down on us for the rest of our lives,” he grew despondent. He was dismayed by the knowledge that our current food-producing...
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The Man in Blue Pyjamas
For Kurdish poet Jalal Barzanji, life has been a series of displacements and exiles. In 1963, when Barzanji was seven, Iraqi forces launched a brutal military campaign against the Kurds. His village of Ashkaftsaqa was decimated, forcing...
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This Close
Jessica Francis Kane’s second collection of short stories confronts identity, self-perception, and the struggle that besets the soul when we find ourselves lost in our own lives. Kane’s characters are not on any grand journey toward...
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Slouching Towards Sirte
In Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa, Maximilian Forte dissects the purposes, justifications, myths, and consequences of NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011. Publicized for world consumption as a...
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The Caning
When Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, a bill that allowed slavery to extend into the western territories by popular sovereignty, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts seethed in outrage, fearful that Kansas would enter...