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Leymah Gbowee’s inspirational memoir Mighty Be Our Powers tells of the Gwobee’s amazing journey through the Liberian Civil War. As she graduates from...
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Published last year, Pym by Mat Johnson was recommended to me by a colleague who, like me, teaches African American literature. The novel, however, is...
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I am currently rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora, in preparation for the newest book of the Gentleman Bastard sequence by Scott Lynch. ...
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I’m easily lured to tales of pioneers who leave the comfortable and familiar to carve out lives on the frontier. I’m also fascinated by the U.S....
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Let me start by saying that I’m a hopeless addict to trashy fantasy and sci-fi novels. After finishing a particularly long and embarrassingly bad series I...
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I picked up Cold Mountain a few weeks ago as a partial antidote to the nonfiction that I read for research and teaching and the children's literature I...
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