For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] The thing about longing is that it could take any form, really. Though vastly different on the surface, everything from going on walks or reading poems, to forged marriages for the sake of securing permanent legal residence, skipping meals, or crossing borders can be powered by an ineffable call towards something, someone, that emanates … Read more
[ad_1] “One thing all truths have in common,” observes Angela, the protagonist of award-winning author Jennifer duBois’s fourth novel, The Last Language, is that “they are only visible from certain distances.” Angela is a twenty-seven-year-old PhD candidate in linguistics at Harvard. She is also the recently widowed mother of four-year-old Josephine. After a harrowing miscarriage, … Read more
[ad_1] At the center of Hot Springs Drive, Lindsay Hunter’s latest novel, is a horrific murder in a suburban block of a Florida town. The reader enters the story from the point of view of the house in which Theresa is murdered; the novel then spirals out to explore who she was, both as a … Read more
[ad_1] Tananarive Due is a prolific writer of speculative fiction. Her many accolades include an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, a World Fantasy Award, and two nominations for the Stoker Award. She is also a continuing lecturer at UCLA’s Department of African American Studies. Due’s supernatural thriller novel The Reformatory follows 12-year-old Robbie … Read more
[ad_1] When identical twins Debbie and Judy Chein were kids, they’d dance around their Bronx apartment, swirling, dipping, and twirling. But as the pair grew older, this activity became impossible because Judy, born with cerebral palsy, needed more physical support than her sister could give her. We Used To Dance: Loving Judy, My Disabled Twin, … Read more
[ad_1] This past July, the German literary organization Litprof announced that Palestinian writer Adania Shibli won the 2023 LiBeraturpreis award for her novel Minor Detail and would receive the award at a ceremony on October 13, 2023 at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair. As is well known by now, the Frankfurt Book Fair decided to … Read more
[ad_1] A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers’ efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow’s new novel, available everywhere on November 14, 2023. Look for the helpers. You will always find people … Read more
[ad_1] If you’re like us, you’re probably preparing for the longer and colder nights with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Sure, with time change comes the approach of the holidays, but here in Chicago the gift of snow often arrives far too often and plentiful. But fear not, because November means it’s also the … Read more
[ad_1] Building on her years of innovative and thorough reporting for publications like XXL, Time, Complex, and NPR, Sowmya Krishnamurthy’s Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion deftly traces 50+ years of innovation in hip hop with regard to creativity and fashion. Through interviews with key players and pictures worth thousands of words, Krishnamurthy traces … Read more
[ad_1] While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads… I. The fox roads run through October, no matter where you start or where you end. It doesn’t … Read more