If you want to know what everyone is talking about, read this. If you don't care about the "zeitgeist" or one woman's idea of feminism, maybe skip.
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If you want to know what everyone is talking about, read this. If you don't care about the "zeitgeist" or one woman's idea of feminism, maybe skip.
At first, when you're reading Kingdom Cons, you think you've gone back in time to a land full of kings and courts and swordfights. Slowly but surely you realize: no, this is not the past, but the present world of cartels on the U.S.-Mexican border.
There's a deep satisfaction in reading a whodunit murder mystery.
Go read this, and be prepared to become emotionally invested in a Maine high school soccer team.
You feel the tension, you feel the idealism, you feel the weight of history... Moriel Rothman-Zecher magnificently weaves all these strands of Jewish identity together.
Amy Kaufman’s Bachelor Nation is the deep dive into the Bachelor franchise you didn’t know you needed.
The entire story was so nuanced in its approach to women and Islam, faith in general, and modern Turkish politics. An important (and super timely) read.
The core of the story is about persecution and hysteria over women's autonomy, and McKay does a wondrous job of crafting a New York where magic lingers just under the surface.
Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, Mabanckou tells the tale of Moses, an orphan in the Congo Republic. He escapes the Congo orphanage to Pointe-Noire, where he falls in with thieves, and then leaves them to work for a kind brothel owner.
