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So You Want to Talk About Race

Reviewed by Kayo Chang Black

Have you ever tried to ignore the uncomfortable conversations about race that happen around you? Have you ever been angry that your well-intended comment has been labeled as ...

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Native Country of the Heart

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, and I will be forever grateful to her for writing this ...

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Just Mercy

Reviewed by P. J. Lazos

Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like a normal kid, but sensing something’s up, then ...

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White Rage

Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck

Built on a mountain of historical insight and irrefutable evidence, White Rage provides a damning indictment of the United States’ purported progress toward a desegregated, ...

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The Fire Next Time

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” - W.E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”- James ...

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Reviewed by Sandra Fluck

They made the crossing at the border city of Washington, D.C., where they took their pictures to verify they were free from the “man-made pestilence of the Southern caste system.”  On the railroad ...

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Latest Reviews

Reviewed by Richard Fluck

Rico Stays

Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan's Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, Pigeon-Blood Red and The Last Straw, Duncan brings together his two apparently ...

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Reviewed by Albert Hill

Published by Atmosphere Press in 2019, The Devil’s In The Details is San Diego based writer and artist V.A. Christie’s debut fiction collection available in both paperback and e-book formats. The ...

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Reviewed by Piper Templeton

The Great Alone

Rarely has the setting played as important a role in a novel as Alaska does in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. It becomes a towering character throughout the novel, symbolizing, revealing and ...

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Longform Reviews

Michael Fertik’s novel Hip Set is not only a thrilling detective story but also a literary inquiry into the sacred and the profane—the secular sandwiched between both. When it comes to human behavior, ...

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In 2011, the Korean American writer and teacher Suki Kim taught English to the sons of North Korea's elite for two semesters. When it came time for her to leave North Korea (the Democratic People's ...

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Leading from the Roots

Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World is a transformative book in the field of organizational leadership. In the Introduction and the following eleven chapters, ...

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Essay

How Storytelling Can Guide Us: On Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child”

By Leilani Squire

God Help the Child

As we near the end of 2017, our country continues to be embroiled in this year’s sexual harassment scandals from “How stupid could he have been to grope the air in front of a sleeping woman’s breasts?” to “How can a pedophile run for office and almost be elected to the US Senate?” The good news is that we are engaged in a long overdue dialogue ...

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Liu Xiaobo: Tyranny, Freedom of Conscience, and the Incompleteness of the Individual

By Sandra Fluck

Liu Xiaobo

“The unique thing about man is that he is capable of being aware of his tragic fate; he can be aware of the fact that he will die; he can be aware that the ultimate meaning of the universe and life itself is unknowable. A nation that is without an awareness of tragedy and death is to some extent a nation that is still in the mists of primal ...

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Author Interviews

V.A. Christie, author and artist

V.A. Christie is an author and artist whose debut fiction collection, The Devil's In The Details, was published by Atmosphere Press in 2019. V.A. Christie's short story "Heartless" was selected as a finalist by Pen 2 Paper in 2019, and won the Audience Choice award in 2020. Forthcoming publications ...

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