Books
I have seen some people on social media saying, “I don’t think about the author’s race when I choose books,” and that is great in some ways. But the thing is, there are biases within the publishing industry that means if you’re not thinking about an author’s race, then you’re mostly reading white authors. This
Editor’s Note: This article contains minor spoilers from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Amongst all the events currently exploding around the world, it is not a bad idea to seek solace within books. When word about a ‘Hunger Games prequel’ first spread, an exciting dynamic rippled through the book-lover world. The Hunger Games is the YA novel
Provided that you saw Jeannette Walls today, an American writer and “Park Avenue socialite” (as nicknamed by The Oprah Winfrey Show), you would never guess that she grew up in an unstable, poverty-stricken household. As Walls climbed up the social ladder—thanks to her journalistic merits—she hid her complicated family history from peers and other social
“I was reading a book awhile ago where this girl was like seventeen and dating an immortal, and all I could think about was how weird the age gap was — and how ridiculous it was that the girl never had homework and went out clubbing,” a friend said to me in a conversation about
Looking for your 2020 Olympics fix? Look no further than Elise Hooper’s Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team. In a year that was once so sure of the Olympic games, in true 2020-fashion, the summer lies empty. Hooper’s novel, however, was all the action and glory I was craving from the now postponed
Arial Robinson is a nineteen-year-old university student. When she found out that she would spend the rest of her sophomore year in college back at home, she didn’t just complain about the opportunities she would miss. Instead, Robinson decided to pursue a massive project during her first few weeks in quarantine, creating a photography book
“A portrait of motherhood and madness.” At first glance, the tagline for Miriam Feldman’s memoir He Came In With It might evoke an image of a woman trying to wrangle her children while dealing with the challenges of life, and to a certain extent, you’d be right. However, the main challenge highlighted in Feldman’s book
2020 has been referred to as the “Year of Austen.” With the ushering in of new Austen-themed TV, movies, and other Austen-centric programs, the beloved 18th-century author continues to maintain her relevance in the 21st-century. Yet another Austen-oriented work out of the rest, Natalie Jenner’s debut novel, The Jane Austen Society, provides readers everywhere with
Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone who walked out of your life ended up walking right back in? This is the premise of That’s Not A Thing, the debut new adult novel by author and lawyer Jacqueline Friedland that has been described as the perfect book for fans of Jojo Moyes and
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird will slowly crumble your heart to unfold the cohesion of the soul. Josie Silver returns with her latest romance novel, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. The contemporary novel follows the aftermath of Lydia Bird’s tragic event: the death of Freddie, her fiance, on her birthday. The readers follow Lydia Bird’s
I have often felt isolated as an English-speaking poet in Korea. Although I am fluent at Korean, I lack the ability to comprehend Korean poetry, which closes me off from local poetry communities. For many of my classmates, poetry is a dreaded subject at school—a den of stress, especially when we are assigned to write
New York Times Bestselling Author Amy Ewing has delivered another incredible world with her new book, The Alcazar, which comes as a second installment to The Cerulean. The novel follows Sera as she tries to make her way back home. The main characters try to seek out Ambrosine Byrne, the only one with knowledge about
