Book Review
Flavour with Benefits
by Meg Nola
Vivacious and celebratory, the cookbook "Flavour with Benefits" applies a plant-based twist to the tastes of Southern Italy. Set amid a landscape of Grecian ruins, volcanoes, olive groves, vineyards, and stunning blue seas, Cathy...
Book Review
Awake to Your Why
by Meg Nola
Modeling a daily course toward success, undertaken when the “moon and stars [are] still shining,” "Awake to Your Why" is a motivational self-improvement guide. Bryce Chapman’s self-help text "Awake to Your Why" extols a regimen of...
Book Review
Daughters of Jerusalem
by Meg Nola
Galya Gerstman’s novel "Daughters of Jerusalem" follows three generations of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. In 1900 in Serbia, Lili and her husband, Joseph, struggle to have a child; Lili lost seventeen babies soon...
Book Review
The Singularity
by Meg Nola
In Balsam Karam’s timely novel "The Singularity", the lives of two refugee women intersect with anonymous resonance. In an unnamed coastal city, a mother searches for her seventeen-year-old daughter, handing out flyers and begging for...
Book Review
Be Not Afraid of My Body
by Meg Nola
Darius Stewart’s memoir "Be Not Afraid of My Body" is a searing account of life as a gay Black man, along with struggles with substance abuse and HIV. Born in 1979, Stewart first realized that he was gay when he was eleven. With quiet...
Book Review
Besaydoo
by Meg Nola
Yalie Saweda Kamara’s lucent poetry collection "Besaydoo" encircles matters of race, heritage, boundaries, and exchanging “worry for hope.” California-born poet Kamara challenges the description of Oakland as a “killing field.”...