shame – Reads A Lot

Silence and Shame in “Ordinary Human Failings” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsFebruary 6, 2024 by Caitlin Stout

[ad_1] Megan Nolan’s highly-anticipated sophomore novel carries the author’s essential voice into new and familiar territories. As a writer of essays, criticism, and fiction, Nolan is undoubtedly skilled at expounding facets of culture that divide and unite; her previous work, such as her column in The New Statesmen, explores modern anxieties, aesthetics, ideas of place … Read more

A Love Letter to the Imperfect Self in “Women Without Shame” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsSeptember 20, 2022 by Meredith Boe

[ad_1] American Book Award-winning author Sandra Cisneros has had a decades-long career publishing both prose and poems, and is perhaps most well known for her first book, The House on Mango Street, a novel told in vignettes. She often mixes Spanish and English, putting to words the in-betweenness of her dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. Woman Without … Read more