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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 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
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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 …
What You Become In Flight by Ellen O’Connell Whittet. Melville House, 2020. $17.99, 240 Pages.
At nineteen, Ellen O’Connell Whittet had a promising career as a ballerina ahead of her. The kind of ballet she was most suited to, she …
