Beyond a Book Review: The uncertain futures of How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go In the Dark, is an exploration of hope when humanity uncovers an ancient virus that threatens its existence.
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Beyond a Book Review: Sentences as paragraphs in The Last White Man
This novel offers an important perspective on identity and privilege as well as an artful structural choice by the author.
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Beyond a Book Review: Alternate Futures in Womb City
A look at a genre-bending, Afrofuturist, speculative novel that grapples with gender, the ethics of AI, and the question of whether balance and hope are possible.
Beyond a Book Review: Beginning at the End in Tomb Sweeping
Tomb Sweeping is a collection of 15 character-driven short stories about Chinese or Chinese-American characters written by Alexandra Chang.
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Beyond a Book Review: The "What if?" of The Deep Sky
The future Yume Kitasei imagined for us is one that mirrors our present when it comes to diversity.
Beyond a Book Review: Grief and Hope in All We Are Told Not to Touch
Why do we write? How do we navigate grief? What gives us hope?
Beyond a Book Review: Once Upon a Time in Dovelion
Read Shawna's review of a novel with a built-in writing prompt for you to try.
Beyond a Book Review: Narrators and Compassion in Finding La Negrita
Shawna Ayoub highlights the technique of using multiple narrators to foster compassion in a story, and offers an exercise so you can practice doing the same.
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Beyond a Book Review: Research as connection in Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
Shawna Ayoub moves "beyond the book review" in not only recommending great books by diverse writers, but highlighting a technique to apply to your own writing.
Book recommendation: A Friend Sails in on a Poem
The clear takeaway, the living arc of this book, is how a love of poetry and a commitment to a writing life, or any artistic life, can bind two people to one another.
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