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Godfall
A giant’s body falls from the sky, exposing extant rifts in a small Nebraska town in Van Jensen’s shocking novel "Godfall"—a murder mystery with a science fiction twist. Before the giant being—dubbed Gulliver by the...
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A giant’s body falls from the sky, exposing extant rifts in a small Nebraska town in Van Jensen’s shocking novel "Godfall"—a murder mystery with a science fiction twist. Before the giant being—dubbed Gulliver by the...
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by Wendy Hinman
A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became...
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In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is...
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by Meg Nola
In "A Nimble Arc", art historian and educator Emilie Boone shifts focus from photographer James Van Der Zee’s renowned Harlem Renaissance work to his role in documenting and advancing “quotidian” Black American life. Van Der Zee...
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Vasily Eroshenko uses simple tales to explore powerful, complex morals in "The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales". Storytellers have long used fairy tales and children’s stories as a means of delivering radical, even subversive...
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"Shadows We Carry" is an insightful novel that probes the complex, painful question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world. In Meryl Ain’s ravishing historical novel "Shadows We Carry", twin sisters in a Jewish...
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A Parisian Jewish girl is sent into hiding in the piercing Holocaust novel "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf". Danielle packed her past away to live as Marie-Jeanne, an orphan and a good Catholic girl. In a French hamlet, she goes to...
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by Ho Lin
In the summer of 1978, Mark Abley and his friend Clare embarked on the Hippie Trail, an overland route from Turkey to Nepal that many Westerners took in search of adventure and spiritual enlightenment. "Strange Bewildering Time" is...
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