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Why ‘How to Kill Your Family’ Is a Top-Tier Hero-Villain Crossover

This is the one book that will make you question your morals this year and you need to read it right now

‘Near the Bone’ Is a Bone-Chilling Monster Tale

Need an isolated survival story? Look no further

‘The Secret Barrister’ Is The Scariest Book You Can Read this Month

I took no interest in the British legal system until someone showed me everything that is wrong with it

‘Nothing But Blackened Teeth’: Both Grotesque and Gorgeous

A little horror book that gives you big creeps

What Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Four Winds’ Says About an Author’s Duty

A book review and a few thoughts on the obligations of a writer to a reader

‘In the Dream House’ Is the Queer History Lesson You Need Right Now

Cover of 'In the Dream House' by Carmen Maria Machado on a light purple background surrounded by little houses.

Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir sheds light on domestic abuse within same-sex couples, exposing a worrying knowledge gap

‘The Parted Earth’: Bringing Partition’s Darkness to Light

Copy of A Parted Earth, held up against a wooden fence

Anjali Enjeti’s story of a land divided

‘Between Two Kingdoms’: The Power of Owning Your Story

Suleika Jaouad's memoir, Between Two Kingdoms, atop a navy blue comforter. A painting with blue, black, yellow, and purple sits in the bottom half of the photo, behind the book.

Truths from Suleika Jouad’s brilliant memoir

The Inheritance of a Colonial Past: On ‘Assembly’, by Natasha Brown

TW: Mentions of racial discrimination. My experience with Assembly as a really short audiobook was full of pauses because of the way it made me introspect. This tiny book packed a punch in the ways it broke down the mantle of privilege, race, gender, and power. Do not be misled by its size (like IContinue reading “The Inheritance of a Colonial Past: On ‘Assembly’, by Natasha Brown”

‘Someday, Someday, Maybe’ Encouraged Me to Do What I Love

This is how ‘Someday, Someday, Maybe’ can be the book you need during difficult moments in your life and why it helped me embrace the things I love again.