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Double Effect

Book Review by Michelle Antoinette Nicholson

Double Effect by Martha Serpas. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. $17.95, 73 Pages

Fans of Martha Serpas’ work—with its imagery and language, bordering on local color; its treatment of spiritual conflicts and loss; and its formal regard for semantics and …

Fake Accounts

Book Review by Colleen Rothman

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler. Catapult, 2021. $26.00, 265 pages.

Though Fake Accounts is Lauren Oyler’s first novel, she’s no literary unknown. Her criticism and essays appear regularly in the few remaining outlets that publish negative reviews, and she’s gained …

Attack Surface

Book Review by Charlie Coulter

Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. MacMillen, 2020. $26.99, 384 pages. 

Other fans of Cory Doctorow will recall the way his previous works depict, in the way much science fiction does, the seemingly inevitable result of modern-day society, rife with speculation

…

The Queer Advantage

Book Review by Amelia Williams

Hardcover: $30, 346 pages/ E-book: $14.99; ISBN: 9780306874611, 030687461X

 

As a bisexual woman, I’m often met with a handful of stereotypical questions about the validity of my sexuality, as well as marginalization within the LGBTQ+ community itself– in simple terms, …

The Office of Historical Corrections

Book Review by Briana Bhola

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. Penguin Random House, 2020. $27.00, 269 pages. 

“It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the polis, and I had …

Transcendent Kingdom

Book Review by Clarise Quintero

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, 2020, $27.00, 288 pages.

 

“At times, my life now feels so at odds with the religious teachings of my childhood that I wonder what the little girl I once was would think of the …

True Love by Sarah Gerard

Book Review by Michael Colbert

True Love by Sarah Gerard. Harper, 2020. $25.99, 224 pages

 

We meet Nina on speakerphone, telling her friend Odessa that her mom is trying to reconcile their past, while holding her phone’s camera to her crotch to send a picture …

You Will Never Be Forgotten

Book Review by Diana Valenzuela

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South. FSG Originals, 2020. $15, 257 pages.

 

Mary South’s short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten begins with the line, “The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly …

The Cactus League

Book Review by Britton Hansen

The Cactus League by Emily Nemens. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. $27.00, 288 Pages. 

I am in love with baseball. Classic Americana baseball movies, The Sandlot, and Field of Dreams were staples of my childhood. I go to as many …

Music From Another World

Book Review by Waverly Evans

Music From Another World by Robin Talley. Inkyard Press, 2020. $18.99, 384 Pages. 

Imagine living in the seventies in a conservative community in California. Oh, and you’re also a closeted teenage lesbian. No one knows about it and you keep …

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