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Two new books about writing break down the creative process
Writing is hard. So is writing about writing. And, sometimes, reading about writing. But today, we have two books that attempt to break down the lite…
1 month, 1 week ago
In 'The Foursome,' conjoined twins marry two sisters — and that’s just the beginning
In 1839, conjoined twins and famous showmen Chang and Eng Bunker — native to Thailand, then called Siam — took a break from touring, settled in North…
1 month, 1 week ago
'Cherry Baby' holds a mirror to its main character - and to the GLP-1 industry itself
Cherry Baby is a novel of perceptions. Cherry thought life couldn’t get worse when her ex-husband turned her into a caricature for his popular comic …
1 month, 1 week ago
'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' chronicles the history of the Jewish Labor Bund
The history of Jewish revolutionary groups is fraught with complexity, violence and surprise — as author Molly Crabapple discovered when she traveled…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
'A Perfect Hand' is a romp through 19th-century England, with a suffragist twist
A Perfect Hand has all the ingredients of a charming Victorian romance novel: a scheming matchmaker plot, an upstairs-downstairs dynamic, and a hefty…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Two new murder mysteries cleverly explore the meta — in two very different ways
In Ilona Bannister’s Five, five strangers wait on a train platform. One will die in the next five minutes but only one person knows: the reader. In A…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
In 'Backtalker,' Kimberlé Crenshaw turns from political theory to personal memoir
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a foundational legal scholar, theorist, and Civil Rights advocate, known for coining such significant and controversial…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
In 'Homebound,' an epic journey through multiverses begins with a single video game
Becks is a queer teenager in the 1980s struggling to find a sense of belonging. When she picks up an unfinished coding project left behind by her bel…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
'The People Can Fly' examines the history of Black prodigies from poets to professors
What does it truly mean to be a “prodigy?” For the poet, professor and author of The People Can Fly Joshua Bennett, the answer is complicated. But ma…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Revisiting 'Whalefall,' the underwater thriller from Pulitzer winner Daniel Kraus
Time is running out for 17-year-old Jay Gardiner: He’s trapped underwater in the body of a sperm whale with just one hour of oxygen left. This not-so…
1 month, 3 weeks ago