Espresso Shots: The Laboratory Assistant, by Natalia Loya
The Lab Assistant by Natalia Loya is a riveting page-turner. Continue reading Espresso Shots: The Laboratory Assistant, by Natalia Loya
Category: politics
Commonplace Book: Dune’s Warning About Thinking Machines
“It burned a hatred and fear of thinking machines so deeply into the human psyche that one wonders if that would has yet completely healed.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Dune’s Warning About Thinking Machines
Espresso Shots: Clutch: a novel, by Emily Nemens
Spanning decades and crossing the continent, Clutch, by Emily Nemens is a sprawling group portrait of five professional women and their everyday challenges and triumphs. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Clutch: a novel, by Emily Nemens
Commonplace Book: Fernando Pessoa’s sick burns
Sick burns, y’all! Continue reading Commonplace Book: Fernando Pessoa’s sick burns
Translation Tuesdays: The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran, by Shida Bazyar, begins with the love story of Behsad and Nahid. Over the course of thirty years, the novel follows the lives of the couple and their children. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
Espresso Shots: Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, by Katie Goh
Koh has written an engaging personal history of a mundane supermarket staple. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, by Katie Goh
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Colgate, through the use of accessibility symbology, turns what would be a standard collection of poems into a simulacra of a museum visit. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
The Relativity of Living Well, by Ashna Ali, is an angry and tender poetic screed written in the dark shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Normal is a trap. It’s also boring. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
Perestroika is a powerful fable about the liberating nature of art and the desire for representative democracy. It is dulled by endless monologuing by cardboard characters. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
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