Category: From the Backlist
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From the Backlist: Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019) In Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winning Girl, Woman, Other, we are introduced to twelve different, loosely connected, British Black women living twelve very different lives: A radical feminist playwright finds herself disappointed by her daughter’s less zealous attitude towards gender; a rural English woman is shocked to discover she…
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From the Backlist: Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles (2011) We’re just nicely settling into the new year now, and I got to thinking about ‘January books’. I realized that I can’t think of many books I associate with the start of the year, with one exception, and it’s a big one: Amor Towles’s wonderful 2011 debut, Rules of…
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From the Backlist: Mem
Last week I had the opportunity to return to Montréal for a visit for the first time in six years. It’s such a beautiful and historic city, and exhibits a perfect blend of European and North American sensibilities. Being in Montréal this month reminded me of one of my favorite books set in the city,…
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From the Backlist: Astonishing the Gods
Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri (1995) When I first read this book in 2004 at the recommendation of my mentor in grad school, I was immediately enchanted by the vivid and mysterious world Ben Okri created. At the time it seemed that Astonishing the Gods was destined to be a modern classic, but it seems…
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