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Glennon Doyle plays God in new memoir ‘Untamed’

Valerie Trapp
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Nov. 15, 2020
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An image of the novel "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas on top of other open books. (Amy Buckle / Amy's Bookshelf)

‘The Hate U Give’: A modern wakeup call to subtle racism

Nevin Thombre
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Aug. 27, 2020
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Last-minute quarantine reads

Julie Ham
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Aug. 21, 2020
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Jasmine Liu reviews Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives," an epic of nomadism spanning time and space. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Bolaño and Deleuze: The exhilaration of nomadic wanderings and writings

Jasmine Liu
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June 10, 2020
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Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
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May 23, 2020
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Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
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May 20, 2020
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Haruki Murakami's novel alternates between two worlds, one an imaginary walled town, the other an almost imaginary Tokyo, all while exploring the nature of freedom. (Photo: Micah Lidberg)

Haruki Murakami’s involuntary freedom

Owen Shen
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May 18, 2020
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Omar Rafik El-Sabrout investigates the first novel in Naguib Mahfouz's "The Cairo Trilogy." (Photo: Anchor Publishing)

No longer preserved: A retrospective of Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Palace Walk’ (غير محفوظ: “بين القصرين”, كتاب نجيب محفوظ)

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
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May 4, 2020
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Sanjana Friedman describes how Henry Miller's notoriously raunchy novel "Tropic of Cancer" has lost its effect on modern readers. (Photo: Obelisk Publishing)

Living artistically with ‘Tropic of Cancer’

Carly Taylor
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May 1, 2020
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Yukiko Motoya's "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" paints domestic life with a magical realist coat, exploring the lives of characters isolated from society or caught in the classic battle between the sexes. (Photo: Maudlin House)

The lonesome storybuilder

Scott Stevens
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Feb. 4, 2020
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Book review: ‘All the Ever-Afters’

Vidhima Shetty
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Aug. 14, 2018
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Book Review: “Dying for a Paycheck”

Sarah Feng
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July 17, 2018
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Best books of 2014

Madelyne Xiao
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Jan. 8, 2015
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‘Enclave’: Underground dystopian

Sarah Guan
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May 6, 2011
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Review: ‘Red Glove’

Sarah Guan
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April 29, 2011
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Science geeks rule

Sarah Guan
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April 22, 2011
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Review: ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem’

Sarah Guan
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March 9, 2011
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Polar bears gain new voice, new advocates

Sarah Guan
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Jan. 14, 2011
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