“Chilco” Is the Post-Colonial, Post-Capitalism Survival Story We Didn’t Know We Needed

A review of Daniela Catrileo’s “Chilco.”

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Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies”

Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers through the liminal spaces where the sacred and the profane collide.

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“Tar Hollow Trans” Is Beautifully Goth and Full of Appalachian Queerness

Stacy Jane Grover’s “Tar Hollow Trans” is an essay collection about spending one’s life on the margins.

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“A Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci: Not just Another Legal Thriller

David Baldacci’s “A Calamity of Souls” is not merely another stereotypical quick-to-read legal thriller, it is also an uncomfortable reckoning with one of America’s darkest periods and the ideologies America as a whole seems too reluctant to leave behind.

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A Gripping Historical Fiction of German American Internment

Nancy Jensen’s novel about a German American family held in an internment camp during World War II is now available in paperback.

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“One in the Chamber”: A Political Thriller with a Satirical Bite

A review of Robin Peguero’s dark political satire set in the hallowed halls of the Capitol: part thriller, part mystery, part social examination.

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“The Stone Catchers” Foregrounds America’s Unique Gun Problem 

A review of Laura Leigh Morris’s novel, “The Stone Catchers.”

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