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All of Us Villains

Book Review by Melanie Hucklebridge

All of Us Villains

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman. TOR Teen, 2021. $18.99, 384 pages.

The time to embrace your monstrousness has come. Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman’s first installment in their new series, All of Us …

The Cabinet

Book Review by Éabha Puirséil

The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim, trans. Sean Lin Halbert. Angry Robot, 2021. $14.99, 304 pages.

“If by some chance you intend on reading this book to the end, it would be best if you rid yourself now of any fanciful …

The Rock Eaters

Book Review by Lisa Ahima

The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado. Penguin Books, 2021. $16, 276 pages.

What business does a story about segregationist America not wanting (literal) aliens in vintage toy stores have in the same short story collection where readers follow a post-grad,

…

The Scapegoat

Book Review by Clarise Quintero

The Scapegoat by Sara Davis, FSG, 2021, $26.00, 210 pages

 

Murder mysteries often go by a formula. Somebody is killed, the protagonist goes on a search for their killer, stumbling upon multiple red herrings and tripping up on the clues. …

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

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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 …

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