by Zadie SmithReview by Meredith McKinnie “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” Howard is an untenured university professor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. The white patriarch of his mixed family, he struggles to understand who he is and where he belongs in this f...
by Vendela VidaReview by Meredith McKinnie “We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and these streets of Sea Cliff are ours. We walk these streets to our school perched high over the Pacific and we run these streets to the beaches, which are cold, windswept, full of fishermen and freaks. We know these wide...
by S.A. CosbyBook review by Meredith McKinnie “A mistake is a lesson, unless you make the same mistake twice.” Cosby’s crime novel is an adrenaline-pumping, high-speed thriller that keeps readers gripping their seats with one hand while furiously turning pages with the other. The action starts in the...
