For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] The Torture Letters, the new book by Laurence Ralph, an anthropologist and professor at Princeton University, grapples with the conditions that led to decades of police torture in Chicago. He frames this lyrical and poignant examination of police violence as a series of open letters. He writes to the youth of Chicago, future city … Read more
[ad_1] My career as a neurosurgeon immerses me in the hardest parts of people’s lives. And yet, the human resilience, faith, and spirit never ceases to amaze me. My heart is continually moved at how individuals rise to the challenge when facing incredibly hard things. And so, my writing, although it often examines pain, loss, … Read more
[ad_1] Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich manuscript, which no one has been able to decipher for over eight hundred years. … Read more
[ad_1] At some point during my maiden reading of The Snow Collectors, I felt compelled to turn to the person sitting beside me and explain the book’s plot. This person—a friend who is by no means coy about taunting me for what she might deem my “less accessible” taste in novels—arched an eyebrow and said … Read more
[ad_1] If you’re anything like me, you let out an audible squeal the first time you saw the trailer for the limited series adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere, streaming on Hulu starting on March 18. Watching the trailer brought me right back to the emotional, totally engrossing, page-turning experience of reading Celeste Ng’s novel, and … Read more
[ad_1] With The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Chicago-based novelist Michael Zapata delivers a globe-trotting and generation-spanning debut that expands the notion of home and the meaning of storytelling. In the early twentieth century, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau publishes Lost City, a work of science fiction that inspires a dedicated fandom that transcends … Read more
[ad_1] American news junkies, preoccupied as they have been with domestic affairs, may only vaguely remember a story that made international headlines in the summer of 2016: Qandeel Baloch, nicknamed the “Kim Kardashian of Pakistan,” was murdered. Her brother openly admitted to strangling her, because she had dishonored the family name with her provocative videos … Read more
[ad_1] From her home in California last month, Lidia Yuknavitch told me she was having an unusually good day: “I think the world is going to shit right now, but inside my house it was good, so I just gave myself one day to feel okay.” I told her that she had answered at least … Read more
[ad_1] When Killers of the Flower Moon arrived on bookshelves in 2017, it became an instant classic. A compulsively readable combination of a stranger-than-fiction true story that reads like bestselling thriller. The tale of a haunting series of murders set against the backdrop of the Osage Indian Nation and the 1920s oil boom sat at … Read more
[ad_1] CAN YOU TELL WE’RE EXCITED? We (and pretty much everyone else) fell MADLY in love with David Yoon’s incredible debut Frankly in Love last year and have been EAGERLY awaiting what David is writing next. Well, now we know! Get ready for Super Fake Love Song and your new obsession. Here are your hints: YA rom … Read more