“By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything falls into the waters of this river – leaves, insects, the feathers of bird – is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my [...]
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I deliberately avoided Lolita for years. Despite its reputation as a literary masterpiece, I was turned off by the story’s premise: a middle-aged man who kidnaps and rapes his teenage stepdaughter. The cover of a friend’s copy only reinforced my feelings; it showed a girl wearing bobby socks and saddle shoes, her knees awkwardly (childishly) [...] Written in 1983, Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis takes a serious look at the intersection of feminism and racism in America. In this collection of writings, Davis touches on a range of topics that point to the struggles of the Black woman fighting to fight for equality in a movement that fails to [...] Sarah Walters is a woman who has followed the rules her entire life, like most of us. Unlike most of us, her rules were passed down over generations of Camellias, women at the top-most rung of Charleston’s social ladder. It’s a public society that’s anything but Democratic, Camellias are born, not made: If your mother [...] We came across this review of Push by Sapphire, which is now a Golden Globe-nominated film. Check it out: I love it when a book–any book–is hot property. This is certainly the case these days for Push, which I bought from a book vendor on 125th street. because the title was so popular the weekend Precious [...] When the Clutter family was murdered in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959 with no trace of a suspect, chief investigator Alvin Dewey declared that in order to crack the case, his team had to “know the Clutters better than they ever knew themselves.” Truman Capote adopted this goal for himself when he began to write [...] Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, the debut book of cub writer ZZ Packer, is heavily lauded. Novelist John Updike recommended the collection of short stories for “The Today Show” Book Club Pick; The New York Times named it one its Notable Books; newspapers like USA Today, [...] I picked up Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society on a recommendation from my grandmother, a witty and well-read lady herself. “It’s an epistolary novel, so it’s written entirely in letter form,” she explained. “And it really is the loveliest novel I’ve read in a while. [...] Eating out should be a joyous experience, in theory. However, the question alone of what to eat or which appetite to satisfy—the sweet or the tangy—can be daunting, even agonizing. Then of course there is the decision of where to eat: someplace fancy or someplace ordinary? Recommendations, especially those coming from someone as highly [...] It’s been 36 years since Erica Jong’s groundbreaking Fear of Flying flew off the shelves and into the limelight as a book that would change not just literature, but the lives of women. Reading it now, it’s easy to appreciate it as a great read, but harder to see it in its original, [...] |
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