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This is a whimsical, well-written novel about an artistically respected Jewish family who managed to escape Nazi-annexed Austria at a perilously late date — September, 1939.
The point of the revelatory exercises in Second Star is to mentally invigorate, to sharpen how we look at the things in plain sight that we take for granted.
Kerry Howley’s expose is a vibrant report on the chaotic and often disquieting world of surveillance and national security.
Children’s picture books about dogs and cats are plentiful, but a few new entries in the genre stand out.
All of the characters in Back to the Dirt are, in a sense, survivalists, people clinging onto what’s long gone, stockpiling karma for an apocalypse that is already upon them.
Nobody reading about Rebecca “Beka” Ntsanwisi, aka “Mama Beka,” can feel anything but good. This extraordinary South African woman has built a network of soccer teams made up of grandmothers throughout her country.
Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.
Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.
Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”
Book Review: “Fearless Women” — A Vivid, Rounded Portrait of the Choices Facing America’s Women
Fearless Women is so well-written, so well researched, and so engaging that you will find it of real value even as it tells some stories you thought you already knew.
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