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Strong Like Her by Haley Shapley. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 272 pages.
“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man” is a phrase that has become increasingly popular within the Etsy cross-stitch community, and possibly more surprisingly, perfectly …
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken. Scribner, 2020. $27.00, 368 pages.
It’s been three months since I’ve found the time to read a whole novel, and part of me was wondering whether I’d forgotten how to read completely until I opened …
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 271 pages.
In Maisy Card’s These Ghosts Are Family, the legacy of trauma takes form. Told in chapters that could be read as individual stories, These Ghosts Are …
Look by Zan Romanaff. Dial Books, 2020. $17.99, 366 pages.
Women experience objectification in film. You’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking, Of course. So many forms of media treat women as objects, most of us have known about …
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019. 416 pages.
Good novels pique or even hold your attention; great ones transcend their subject, becoming much-needed exposés of the myriad of deep-seated societal, and psychological issues that plague our world. A …
The Crying Book by Heather Christle. Catapult, 2019. $16.95, 208 pages.
In her author’s note, Heather Christle writes that The Crying Book began as a map of all the places she has cried. Over many years, the book grew to …
Robert Azzarello
Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World LSU Press, 2019 224 Pages
Thomas Jessen Adams and Matt Sakakeeny, eds. Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Duke University Press, 2019 368 Pages
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Weather, by Jenny Offill. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, 2020. $23.95, 224 pages.
Sometimes a novel comes along out of nowhere and shocks you and shatters your heart. A few years back, one of those novels was Jenny Offill’s …
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Graywolf Press, 2019. 264 pages.
Those familiar with Carmen Maria Machado’s work have become comfortable with the distasteful, with the unfamiliar, and with the pseudo-absurd. Her first short story collection, Her Body …
Big Windows, by Lauren Moseley. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. $15.95, 72 pages.
Animals—a jackal, a bear, a panther, a bobcat, a coyote—stalk through the poems in Lauren Moseley’s remarkable, unsettling recent collection Big Windows (Carnegie Mellon University Press, …
