For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Our lives aren’t movies, no matter how much we may dream of the cinematic pan out of a “happily ever after” conclusion. In real life, juries don’t reach a verdict within a 90-minute runtime, the killer doesn’t always face justice, and memories don’t play back clearly like a full scene. Oftentimes the truth is … Read more
[ad_1] Men and women often have an unequal share of power in their relationships. In the debut story collection, Objects of Desire, Clare Sestanovich explores the relationships men and women share, and examines the power dynamics between them. The men primarily escape without consequence while the women bear the emotional and literal burdens the characters … Read more
[ad_1] “I want to tell you about making people disappear,” says intelligence agent Andrés Antonio Valenzuela Morales to a reporter at Cauce magazine. His defection arrives in the middle of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. It is—was—August 27, 1984. “I keep mixing up my tenses,” admits the narrator of Nona Fernández’s The Twilight Zone. In this … Read more