Jane Austen is a writer whose stories I love, whose writing a find alluring and romantic, and yet, is a writer who I rarely read. I regularly remark that I want to read of all of her work, but years go by and her work remains unread by me, with the minimal exception of books […]

This novel follows three Palestinian women living in Brooklyn, NY on two timelines—Deya, Fareeda, and Isra. Deya is eighteen with dreams of attending college and finding romantic, passionate love. Fareeda, Deya’s grandmother, believes that woman’s place is in the home and prefers Deya marry instead of attending college. In fact, she’s started arranging meetings with […]

Before I begin, I let me just preface this review by saying this is a heavy read.  It is likely not for everyone and makes the reader uncomfortable.

The setting – Madrid 1957 under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. Madrid, while beautiful, conceals dark secrets. Tourists and foreign businessman come to the city, eager to explore but also to seek other opportunities. Daniel Matheson, the eighteen-year-old son of a Texas oil tycoon, arrives in the city hoping to photograph the area […]

A collection essays from Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror is a biting commentary on modern feminism, the internet, and the millennial dilemma of being progressive in some ways and complicit in others. It is sharp and self-aware and I thoroughly enjoyed the essays. Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and her voice is […]

October 5, 2017 –The New York Times published an article that ignited a movement. An article detailing decades of silencing that Harvey Weinstein and people who worked with and for him engaged in was released into the world and opened a floodgate of allegations and brought a reckoning that was long overdue. Two reporters, Jodi […]

“They knew our names and they knew our parents. But they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power. To sell a child right from under his mother, you must know that mother only in the thinnest way possible. To strip a man down, condemn him to be beaten, flayed alive, […]

When the news of William Sweeney’s fatal heart attack reaches his eldest daughter, Liza, she immediately calls her sisters – Maggie, the free-spirited artist and middle child, and Tricia, the disciplined lawyer who works for a big firm in New York and baby sister. The sisters convene in Southport, Connecticut to handle their father’s estate […]

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Page Count: 240 Genre: Memoir Year Published: 2020 Stray is easily one of my most anticipated reads of 2020. I fell in love with Danler’s writing when I read her novel, Sweetbitter, in 2016. This memoir is raw and real and doesn’t attempt to offers answers.