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Back to SearchThe "Massachusetts Review" Magazine: A Discussion with Jim Hicks and Shailja Patel
Episode 22
Jim Hicks is the Executive Editor of the Massachusetts Review, a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UMass Amherst, and a translator of lite…
2 years, 3 months ago
Eve J. Chung, "Daughters of Shandong" (Berkley Books, 2024)
Episode 181
Daughters of Shandong (Berkley Books, 2024), the author’s first and based on the life of her grandmother, follows the fortunes of a mother and three …
2 years, 3 months ago
Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
Episode 137
Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural interconnection of…
2 years, 3 months ago
Nat Reeve, "Nettleblack" (Cipher Press, 2022)
Episode 180
1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she’ll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn’t as simple as s…
2 years, 3 months ago
Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)
Episode 130
A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything...
When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police,…
2 years, 3 months ago
Patrick Colm Hogan, "A People Without Shame" (Blackwater Press, 2024)
Episode 414
Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to …
2 years, 3 months ago
Sorayya Khan, "We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Today’s book is: We Take Our Cities With Us (Ohio State UP, 2022), by Sorayya Khan. After her mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by rev…
2 years, 4 months ago
Graham McNeill, "Horus Heresy - False Gods" (Games Workshop, 2014)
Episode 161
For years, fans have been clamoring for novels about the Horus Heresy - the bloody civil war that set Space Marine against Space Marine and nearly sp…
2 years, 4 months ago
Molly Giles, "Life Span" (WTAW Press, 2024)
Episode 412
Molly Giles remembers when her father came back after WWII in 1945. Her memoir, Life Span (WTAW Press, 2024) opens when she is three years old, sitti…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dana Elmendorf, "In the Hour of Crows" (Mira Books, 2024)
Episode 81
Dana Elmendorf’s novel In The Hour of Crows (Mira Books, 2024) takes place in small town Appalachia and follows Weatherly Opal Wilder, a young woman …
2 years, 4 months ago