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'The SalviSoul Cookbook' celebrates Salvadoran food and the matriarchs who cook it
Years ago, Karla Tatiana Vasquez tried to search up a recipe for one of her favorite Salvadoran dishes, Salpicón Salvadoreño. The scarce results not …
2 years, 1 month ago
'The Paris Novel' revels in a good meal, a beautiful dress and a romantic city
A plane ticket to Paris, a vintage Dior dress and a spectacular first-ever oyster — these three things upend the life of Stella, the sheltered, cauti…
2 years, 1 month ago
In 'The White Bonus,' Tracie McMillan analyzes the monetary cost of racism
Racism is a major contributor to economic disparities in the U.S. – but in her new book, The White Bonus, writer Tracie McMillan crunches the numbers…
2 years, 1 month ago
'The Alternatives' is a novel about grief, sisterhood and working women
Caoilinn Hughes' novel The Alternatives revolves around the four Flattery sisters, each with a more impressive career or degree than the last, all wi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Brittney Griner's memoir recounts her detention in Russia and finally 'Coming Home'
In 2022, WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained by Russian authorities, convicted of drug charges and given a nine-year prison sentence. Her new memo…
2 years, 1 month ago
'Lessons for Survival' thinks about parenting through social and environmental crises
As a parent, how do you navigate – and feel hope – raising kids through a pandemic, a climate crisis and with police brutality in the news? That's th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Colm Tóibín's long-anticipated sequel to 'Brooklyn' is 'Long Island'
The writer Colm Tóibín says he never meant to write a sequel to his 2009 novel Brooklyn. But an image came to him years later, of his protagonist fro…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chanel Miller's new children's book follows lost socks in New York City
Chanel Miller's first book was a critically acclaimed memoir about her sexual assault and the following trial. But she always wanted to write and ill…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rachel Khong's new novel explores who gets to be 'Real Americans'
Real Americans, the new novel by Rachel Khong, spans generations and decades within a family to understand the ongoing struggle to make sense of race…
2 years, 1 month ago
For Mother's Day, two books that tackle motherhood
This weekend is Mother's Day, a good occasion to reflect on the art of parenting. First, comedian Glenn Boozan speaks to Celeste Headlee on Here and …
2 years, 2 months ago