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Song of Solomon
The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison I began reading Song of Solomon in the airport. Stranded there for hours and having finished the...
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Mar 19, 20202 min read
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah All I ever knew about David Livingstone’s exploration of various regions of Africa was...
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Jan 20, 20203 min read
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No Visible Bruises
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder Clear and aching, empathetic and analytical, reported out with journalistic standards of...
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Jan 3, 20202 min read
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Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo A river of stories flowing thick with a web of characters starts running fresh and wild the...
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Dec 5, 20192 min read
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She Said
The experience of reading She Said is one of two sides. On one hand, the turning of each page can bring on a sense of disgust and dread...
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Nov 25, 20192 min read
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Looking for Lorraine
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry Imagine you are lying in a field of grass as evening falls. Imperceptibly, even as the light goes...
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Nov 17, 20192 min read
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus An embracing magical tenderness exudes from the pages of The Stars and the...
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Oct 16, 20192 min read
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell “DeShawn had his theories about it all. He would look at any moving body of water, a...
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Aug 30, 20192 min read
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Absent
Absent by Betool Khedairi First, there are the dramas of everyday life: new neighbors in the apartment building, a relative’s ongoing...
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Aug 17, 20192 min read
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Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Set in a restive Nigeria, where a coup is first impending and then happening, where gas and...
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Jul 18, 20192 min read
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Hurricane Child
This book is bright and sharp, sparkling and ghostly. It smells like salt and sweat, and feels like holding hands, like running, like...
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Jul 9, 20192 min read
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Alif the Unseen
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Behind the anonymity of his handle, Alif is a talented, undogmatic computer programmer who will...
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May 30, 20192 min read
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Ghost Boys
Ghost Boys begins at the end of Jerome Rogers' life. Indeed, the novel's first word, floating in large, parchment-colored text over a...
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Apr 25, 20192 min read
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We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Ruffin The present reality in Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s exquisite We Cast a Shadow is some 60 years from 2019....
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Apr 10, 20192 min read
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Circe
Circe by Madeline Miller Arguably most known for her appearance in epic poem The Odyssey, Circe is a powerful figure not just when she...
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Mar 24, 20192 min read
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali A book of short, conversational essays about rape, rape culture, and the...
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Mar 6, 20192 min read
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Two Roads
Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac Cal thinks he knows who he is: a “knight of the road” riding the rails across the U.S. as a hobo with his...
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Mar 1, 20193 min read
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Girl Town
Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak Each mini comic collected in Girl Town is distinct: in one, the lonely and heartbroken Diana orders an...
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Feb 24, 20192 min read
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A Kind of Freedom
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton A work of historical fiction bound by space but not by time, A Kind of Freedom stories...
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Jan 8, 20193 min read
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The Street
“She noticed that once the crowd walked the length of the platform and started up the stairs toward the street [in Harlem], it expanded...
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Dec 20, 20184 min read
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