For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Palestinian-American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan always has a way of replicating the unreliability of time and delivering one-line monumental truths. Her latest poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back, experiments with form and represents the disjointedness of what the in-between looks and feels like. Alyan often writes about diaspora and … Read more
[ad_1] No book has influenced how I approach book reviews more than Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses. The book challenges the lens many readers use, one shaped by white, Western values, and is a call not only to make space for diverse storytelling, but to evaluate it on its own terms. And, … Read more
[ad_1] Demystifying the world is central to many coming-of-age stories. Often in these stories we find a wide-eyed, hopeful young person who journeys out into the world seeking to manifest their ideals, only to face impersonal cruelties and structural tragedies which force them to reassess who they are, who they want to be, and the … Read more