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The Fascination

by Michelle Anne Schingler

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... Read More

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The Berry Pickers

by Michelle Anne Schingler

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her... Read More

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Bare Witness

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A paean to beauty, honor, and truth, "Bare Witness" is an expansive poetry collection that delights in experimentation. A fifty-year career retrospective, Joseph Small’s "Bare Witness" gathers beautiful images that attest to a lifelong... Read More

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Jewish Space Lasers

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Mike Rothschild’s "Jewish Space Lasers" is a cutting exposé of centuries’-worth of antisemitic scapegoating, often done with one influential family at its center. “Where myth and mystique meet outsized wealth and great historical... Read More

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Yara

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A young woman with voracious appetites wonders if she is a victim, vixen, or somewhere in between in Tamara Faith Berger’s libidinous novel "Yara". At fifteen, Yara’s mother gifted her a new nose; she was ungracious. Two weeks later,... Read More

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