Book Review
Dating Disability
by Meg Nola
An intimate, revealing self-help resource, "Dating Disability" encourages seeking love after first learning to love oneself. In the candid and welcoming memoir–cum–self help guide "Dating Disability", disability advocate Emily...
Book Review
Hope on the Border
by Meg Nola
"Hope on the Border" is an inspiring, action-oriented social science survey focused on the work of one philanthropic organization. Gil Gillenwater’s celebratory social science survey "Hope on the Border" spotlights the compassionate...
Book Review
Fighting Back
by Meg Nola
Progressing at the taut pace of an espionage novel, "Fighting Back" is the engrossing biography of a defiant, passionate Jewish American soldier. Jeffrey and Craig Weiss’s gripping biography "Fighting Back" explores the brief yet...
Book Review
Bright Before Us, Like a Flame
by Meg Nola
From their own singular, intersectional perspectives, the writers and illustrators whose works are collected in the vibrant anthology "Bright Before Us, Like a Flame" reflect on urban life, immigration, activism, LGBTQ+ life, and coming...
Book Review
The Fire That Makes Us
by Meg Nola
A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a...
Book Review
Behind The Mirror
by Meg Nola
A woman explains her personal successes to a journalist in the reflective novel Behind the Mirror. In Bridget Budd’s inspiring novel Behind the Mirror, a woman with lifelong emotional challenges explains her gradual process of personal...
Book Review
The Unrepentant
by Meg Nola
Insurgency and sociopolitical revolution link those fighting for freedom in Sharmini Aphrodite’s luminous short story collection, "The Unrepentant". Set in twentieth-century Malaya, the book’s fourteen stories share a tone of...
Book Review
Hymn to Moray Eels
by Meg Nola
Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable....
