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My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante The first installment in an extended, four-part bildungsroman, My Brilliant Friend tells the origin...
aolundsmith
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride
My review of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride by Nate Cosby with art by Scott Brown and Ruairi Sebastian Piriz is now posted on No Flying...
aolundsmith
Nov 10, 20181 min read
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“My life wouldn’t be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn’t obsessed with oppressing me because I’m fat....
aolundsmith
Nov 10, 20181 min read
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Winners Take All
Winners Take All by Anand Ghiridaradas “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody...
aolundsmith
Nov 3, 20183 min read
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What We Lose
What We Lose What We Lose tells the tale of a young, mixed woman named Thandi and the grief she experiences upon the death of her mother....
aolundsmith
Oct 16, 20181 min read
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Washington Black
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan On a tense and perhaps ill-fated evening in Barbados in 1830, young Washington Black departs the only...
aolundsmith
Oct 10, 20181 min read
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
“This, to me, is the heart of decolonization. Love isn’t saccharine sentiment. It’s not easy answers, or getting along all the time. It’s...
aolundsmith
Aug 7, 20182 min read
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When They Call You a Terrorist
"We strive to be different, to love and honor the singular us along with the collective us. We want to build a world in which undeveloped...
aolundsmith
Jul 27, 20182 min read
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafal
"It is the first time in my entire life that the shah is no longer the ruler. I have a huge science test today, but I feel like my brain...
aolundsmith
Jul 16, 20182 min read
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Hurricane Dancers
Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle Quebrado didn’t use to be called Quebrado, not when he was small and whole. The child of a Spanish...
aolundsmith
Jul 8, 20182 min read
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You Bring the Distant Near
You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins You Bring the Distant Near is a kaleidoscope filled with what is at first a familiar story:...
aolundsmith
Jul 7, 20182 min read
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If You Come Softly
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson “If they have it in them, to not like somebody because of their color—then I might have it in...
aolundsmith
Jul 3, 20182 min read
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Hello, Universe
“I know there’s something going on with you, anak. You have the face of Frederico the Sorrowful.” “Who is Frederico the Sorrowful?” “He...
aolundsmith
Jun 29, 20182 min read
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"Then the city ripped up the asphalt on the sidewalks throughout central Moscow and replaced it with pavement tiles. The first freeze...
aolundsmith
Jun 27, 20182 min read
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Long Way Down
I HAD NEVER HELD A GUN Never even touched one. Heavier than I expected, like holding a newborn except I knew the cry would be much much...
aolundsmith
Jun 27, 20181 min read
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Amiable with Big Teeth
Amiable with Big Teeth by Claude McKay Declined for publication when first written and subsequently lost in an archive for nearly seventy...
aolundsmith
Jun 4, 20181 min read
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Whichwood
Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi “She was not lesser for being younger; her hurts were no less important; her feelings no less relevant…She was...
aolundsmith
May 23, 20182 min read
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Exit West
“Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to open, and they had understood that the...
aolundsmith
May 19, 20181 min read
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The Warmth of Other Suns
“He was getting away from all that now. He looked out at the lights and the billboards. The driver announced that they were passing out...
aolundsmith
May 10, 20182 min read
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Bunk
“Agassiz becomes the ultimate ‘lost race’ explorer, seeking to find an originating lost white tribe and a separate black ancestor that...
aolundsmith
May 1, 20181 min read
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