Book Review: The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
Actor Darina Al-Joundi's debut recalls a childhood at the start of the Lebanese Civil War with profound immediacy.
Drawing its title from the American music icon whose frenetic “Sinner Man” commemorates a lifestyle that can no longer be sustained as well as a father whose death marks a crossroads for the author, this account of a daughter’s search for liberati...
Book Review: Swamplandia!
Karen Russell's first novel makes implausible happenings richly human.
Karen Russell, a Granta Best Young American Novelist, is the author of the critically acclaimed short story coll...
Book Review: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Benjamin Hale's debut follows a chimp whose strange and complicated evolution reflects our own.
As the protagonist of Benjamin Hale’s debut novel, Bruno Littlemore is a skilled orator, waxing poetic about everythi...
Book Review: The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
Billed as the first comprehensive anthology of female writing in America, The Vintage Book of American Women Writers ...
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I am Batwoman, Hear Me Roar
The classic comic heroine got a makeover. Can she save Gotham and the face of female superheroes?
The comic book world often seems like a straight man’s world, but Batwoman is starting to kick down these barriers in...
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