Purchase a copy for yourself here! In this current era of burgeoning global populist movements, it can feel like democracy is threatened under attack like never before. But for the nations torn apart by colonial occupation, radical populist movements and militaristic governments have been the norm for decades. Occupying governments and local freedom fighting groups… Continue reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Purchase a copy for yourself here! It’s been over a decade since Elizabeth Strout published her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge. In the intervening years, the novel was adapted as an award winning series for HBO starring Frances McDormand. Strout has returned to her eponymous heroine in Olive, Again, a collection of stories about the… Continue reading Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In his most recent novel, Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu brings his signature wit and inventiveness to a narrative that explores Asian identity, specifically through a popular media lens. The novel is set in a fictional universe where the whole world is a series of scripted television programs, and all… Continue reading Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Erosion is the recent essay collection from Terry Tempest Williams, an author and activist who has been writing about the environment and humanity’s relationship to it for decades. This collection encapsulates both the private and the public, including fierce calls to defend America’s public lands, as well as Williams’… Continue reading Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Black Leopard Red Wolf is the most recent novel from Jamaican author Marlon James, and the follow up to his Man Booker Prize-winning 2014 novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. James has stated that this novel is the first in his Dark Star trilogy, which will be a… Continue reading Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is concerned with the rise of “woke” culture, a self obsessive tendency of privileged white liberals to perform progressive ideals of racial and gender equality. The novel is told from the perspectives of two women, one of whom is Alix, a… Continue reading Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
Purchase a copy for yourself here! If You Want to Make God Laugh is Bianca Marais’ sophomore novel, and it is an exploration of three South African women negotiating motherhood and trauma, whose lives interact in a variety of explosive ways. The novel begins with Zodwa, a seventeen year old girl living in an impoverished… Continue reading If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Emily Nussbaum is a critic who had been writing about television as an art form years before virtually anyone else considered it one, when it was still a point of pride for intellectuals to not have a TV set in their home. Her recent essay collection, I Like to… Continue reading I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Friend is the most recent novel by the writer Sigrid Nunez, which despite being her eighth novel, is responsible for catapulting her into the wider literary canon. The novel is told from the perspective of an aging writer and teacher, our narrator, who has just lost a beloved… Continue reading The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Ugly American is widely considered to be a landmark text in American political science, one that altered the face of American diplomacy after its publication in 1958. The novel was a smash-hit when it was first published, and eventually turned into a film starring Marlon Brando in 1963.… Continue reading The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick