review by MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Names are talismans of memory too – Katrina, Camille. Perhaps this is why we name our storms.” When we think of Hurricane Katrina, we think of New Orleans. The media’s fascination with the Big Easy resonated across our screens as we watched people stranded on roofto...
review by Meredith McKinnie “I was what I was and could no more choose my family, even a family denied me, than I could choose a country that denies us all the same.” On a 19th century Virginia plantation, young Hiram Walker knows only the landscape in front of him. As the dominance of American [&hel...
review by MEREDITH MCKINNIE “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl’s groundbreaking book, originally published in 1959, details his experience as a prisoner of war during World War II, his post-war development of a school of psychother...