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  • This Novel About Ebola Can Teach Us How to Recover from Covid-19

    The many voices in Veronique Tadjo's "In the Company of Men" highlight the need for solidarity in a crisis

    Mar 4 - Giselle Defares
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    We Can’t Believe Survivors’ Stories If We Never Hear Them

    Our ideas about which narratives are important, sane, or credible depend on what we see reflected in culture

    Mar 2 - Rachel Zarrow
    culture Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You

    What We Need Right Now Is the Gentle Novel

    Books like Henry James's "The Ambassadors" recognize that violence and trauma are not the only serious subjects for art

    Feb 25 - Maxwell Sater
    books A book in soft focus

    Please Just Let Women Be Villains

    From "Wicked" to "Cruella," rehabilitated villainesses rely on outdated ideas of women's virtue

    Feb 25 - Elyse Martin
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    Why New Fiction Is Making Mothers into Monsters

    Novels and short stories are leveraging horror elements to express how dehumanizing motherhood can be

    Feb 24 - Rachel Mans McKenny
    books Ink drawing of a woman sitting in a nest with two babies, looking spooky

    How to Convey the Refugee Experience Without Resorting to Refugee Tourism

    What would the goals of "American Dirt"—making the migrant experience compelling and relatable—have looked like if someone from inside the story held the pen?

    Feb 23 - April Yee
    books Birds flying

    Lydia Davis Is the Anti-Domesticity Influencer Pandemic Moms Need

    Davis encourages us to embrace doing a mediocre job around the house

    Feb 18 - Sandra Schmuhl Long
    books onion skin

    Gloria Naylor Showed Us the Quiet Monster of Classism in the Black Community

    "Linden Hills" taught me to see how the pursuit of status dominated life in my class-conscious Black neighborhood

    Feb 4 - Lyndsey Ellis
    books Yellow Chanel bag

    “Piranesi” Is a Dispatch from the Kingdom of Chronic Illness

    I read the book while suffering from "long Covid," and felt connected to the author's own experience of mysterious disease

    Jan 28 - Jodie Noel Vinson
    books Hallway with arched windows
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