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WHITE LIKE ME

Author: Danny Cherry Jr. |
Mar
05
2024
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Writing for me had always been a release. But every time I tried to write about
my experiences as a Black man, the same thing happened: I doubted myself, and
wondered if I was Black enough to write about the Black experience.


THE PARASITISM OF MEMORY IN BURNT SUGAR

Author: Miyako Pleines |
Feb
29
2024
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Avni Doshi’s Booker shortlisted 2019 novel wonders if, since our minds can
distort our memories into unrecognizable things and still have us believe them
as truth, it is apt to say they overtake us, a sort of parasitic recall designed
to humor us through our lives.


DECODING THE SILENCES IN CORREGIDORA

Author: Brady Brickner-Wood |
Feb
27
2024
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Gayl Jones’s 1975 book positions language as an apparatus of control and power,
a weapon used to continue cycles of oppression. It contends that silence—both
literal and metaphorical—can create a future untainted by the past.


BETRAYAL IN RAINBOW RAINBOW

Author: Sarah Appleton Pine |
Feb
22
2024
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In their debut short story collection, Lydia Conklin examines what it’s like to
inhabit a body and/or sexuality that is inherently uncomfortable—not because of
one’s certainty about their identity but because of how others reject or
suppress it.


LANGUAGE AND TRAUMA IN ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS

Author: Sarah Appleton Pine |
Feb
20
2024
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Little Dog, the narrator of Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, learns to be strategic in
his use of language as a means of self-preservation.


HEATHER CHRISTLE’S PORTRAIT OF CRYING

Author: Miyako Pleines |
Feb
15
2024
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Heather Christle’s 2019 book is a beautiful study of one of humanity’s most
universal experiences, its fragments acting as tear drops that, when collected,
turn it into one very good, very emotional cry.


A WOMAN’S CONVICTION IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AND 500 DAYS OF SUMMER

Author: Sarah Appleton Pine |
Feb
13
2024
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Summer, Helena, and Hermia hold fast to their own definitions of love, even in
the face of men who refuse and ignore them.


SENTINELS OF GRIEF IN THE FRIEND

Author: Laura Haugen |
Feb
08
2024
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The Great Dane in Sigrid Nunez’s acclaimed novel embodies grief itself—a
presence that comes uninvited, demands attention, disrupts routine, behaves
inscrutably, and holds the power of ferocity and tenderness at once.


THE PURSUIT OF LOVE’S REJECTION OF ROMANCE

Author: Claudia McCarron |
Feb
06
2024
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Nancy Mitford’s tragicomic novel demonstrates the unglamorous acts of love that
come from sustained, tested friendships, and it’s from these relationships that
the book mines much of its celebrated humor and its overlooked, but just as
important, compassion.


DREADFUL SORRY’S EXPLORATION OF AMERICAN NOSTALGIA

Author: Rachael Nevins |
Feb
01
2024
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Dispelling the haze of American nostalgia matters, and Jennifer Niesslein shows
how it can be done, particularly by those of us who are white—and that, after it
is stripped of sentimentality, nostalgia can be a force that drives us to make a
beloved place better.
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