The Vegetarian Reviewed
Originally published as three linked novellas, Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian is a perspectival triptych following a woman whose commitment to abstention reads as devotional, a faith-based opting out
High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs
Given the sheer tonnage of books already devoted to the Nazis and Hitler, you might assume that everything interesting, terrible and bizarre is already known about one of history’s most notorious regimes and its genocidal leader.
Risk Game Reviewed
Entrepreneurial philosophy is simple: do one thing and do it well. This mantra for success can be traced back to Ancient Greek poet Archilochus who wrote, “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing.” In Francis Greenburger’s new book, Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur (co-written with Rebecca Paley)
Bad Character Reviewed
Deepti Kapoor’s beautiful and spellbinding debut novel, 2015’s release of A Bad Character from Alfred A. Knopf, is about love and loss in modern-day New Delhi.
Problems Reviewed
Jade Sharma’s Problems is a gutsy work of fiction that doesn’t skimp on the raw details and, ultimately, delivers a sense of resolution for its troubled narrator
A Wall Street Whodathunkit
Michael Lewis was certainly not the first Wall Street insider to wake up with a conscience one morning and write a kiss-and-tell book to get a mind-bending revelation off his chest: Banks collude with the government and financial “experts” to rip you off. Whodathunkit, huh?
A review of "Problems" by Jade Sharma
Jade Sharma’s Problems starts out like many alt lit publications: protag lives in city, protag has crazy neighbors, protag does drugs and fucks a lot, but still has depression somehow, and so the soul-searching begins.
DEAR PEDRO
John Dean interrupted my regularly scheduled Sesame Street when you were getting turned on to grass i was watching Vietnam on TV when you met Agent Orange and he stuck to you like glue i didn’t know i just heard it was the word
A review of "AFROFUTURISM" by Ytasha L. Womack
AFROFUTURISM, The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, from Ytasha L. Womack (a multimedia artist) will have you wanting to step on a star ship, meet androids, robots, extraterrestrials, and travel through time.
REVIEW: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Whatever hope there is of ending racism in this country rests, and has always rested, on solidarity.
Is It Anger or Abandonment? Ta-Nehisi Coates' Tie Between God, America and Being Black In America
Ta-Nehisi Coates isn’t a writer that minces his words, he simply tells it as it should be.
REVIEW: "Between The World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In the wake of groups like ‘Black Lives Matter’ and horrific deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, "Between The World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, takes the conversation about race to another level.