REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She yearned for closeness, and yet her own responses prevented it. She would never be kittenishly playful with him; he would never confront hard truths with her. They could scarcely ever relax with each other.” Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, born in 1884, is known for being the ...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Motherhood. Now that’s a foreign country.” Lionel Shriver’s novel about the complications of motherhood and the influence of parenting on a child’s development is gripping, frank, and forces readers to meditate on the unthinkable. Two years prior, Eva Khatchadourian’s son...
by Colson Whitehead “The music stopped. The circle broke. Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. In the sway of a sudden reverie among the furrows or while untangling the mysteries of an early morning dream. In the middle of a song on a warm Sunday night. Then it comes, [&helli...
