REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “One thing I have learned is that one must grab at the chances life offers – taste the fruit, drink the wine. At the hour of one’s death there will be no solace in knowing that one has known one’s place or lived safely.” Selina Lennox is the quintessential post-World...
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...
