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NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024
NPR· 10 hours agoThere is Marcus, a cop who stands up for his Arab sister who is dating a Black man; Samira, who is shamed for being a childless divorcee (despite that she is a successful ...
How racism haunts America, and other lessons from Tananarive Due's ghostly speculative fiction
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoScience fiction writer Octavia Butler, who was born and raised in Pasadena, opens her 1993 novel...
Naomi Klein wins first Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe novel follows Sashi, a 16-year-old aspiring doctor, growing up in Jaffna in the...anti-vaccine misinformation. Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges for...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 5 hours agoBlack News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
Mark Twain’s novel is retold in the voice of Jim | DON NOBLE
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNot THIS James. He knows freedom...28 (Hardcover) This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa...
Naomi Klein and V. V. Ganeshananthan Win Women's Prize Literary Awards
US News & World Report· 5 days agoIts sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to U.S. writer V. V. Ganeshananthan for her novel “Brotherless Night,” about a family torn apart by ...
Queenie is a compelling exploration of Black motherhood – I’m glad I gave it a second chance
The Conversation· 1 day agoLike a lot of 20-something-year-old Black women, when the novel Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams debuted in 2019, I was quick to get my hands on it. Queenie ...
The 24 Best New Book Releases This Week: June 18-24, 2024
Parade via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoDebut novelist Matt Young also wrote the acclaimed memoir Eat The Apple. The novel God Bless You,...
Did a White Professor Sexually Abuse Her Disabled Black Patient—Or Was it Love?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJohn Johnson was a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University in 2009 when, while taking a class led by...
27 of the Best LGBTQ+ Books to Read This Pride
Vogue· 11 hours agoNot only was this book inspired by the tumultuous life of Woolf’s longtime lover Vita Sackville-West, but it’s also considered to be one of the earliest...