Thomas Piketty’s Radical Plan to Redistribute Wealth
Piketty’s “A Brief History of Equality” looks at centuries of economic improvement and suggests new reforms for modern societies.
Big Tech Wants to Commodify Your Happiness
In Claire Stanford’s “Happy for You,” a struggling academic joins an internet company building an algorithm to quantify human joy.
The Work-Life-Balance Library Welcomes Another Title
Lara Bazelon’s “Ambitious Like A Mother” is the latest addition to a tall pile of books for women who are pondering issues of employment and children.
In Tove Ditlevsen’s World, Happy Families Don’t Stand a Chance
Two reissued works of fiction, “The Faces” and “The Trouble With Happiness,” upend domestic life in the Danish writer’s cutting, deadpan prose.
Janelle Monáe’s Queer, Afrofuturist Literary Debut
“The Memory Librarian” translates the themes of her 2018 album, “Dirty Computer,” onto the page.
The Strange History of American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti’s “The Right” traces the twists and turns of the right wing’s policies and philosophy.
Left Behind by China’s Economic Miracle
“Rouge Street,” a suite of three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, gives voice to characters in an industrial region sometimes called China’s Rust Belt.
A Daughter Tries to Make Sense of Her Mother’s Suicide
In “Stepping Back From the Ledge,” Laura Trujillo brings a journalist’s eye and a family member’s agony to a bottomless loss.
They Populated Louisiana. Against Their Will.
In “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean relates the little-known history of the prisoners deported in 1719 to French colonies on the Gulf Coast.
Fantasy and Science Fiction: April 2022
Whether fueled by magic or advanced technology, imagination is the engine of speculative fiction. This newsletter brings you the best of fantasy, science fiction, and everything in between. Monthly.
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Review: ‘Disorientation,’ by Elaine Hsieh Chou, and ‘Activities of Daily Living,’ by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Debut novels follow Asian American women researching the lives and work of elusive artists.
Review: ‘Four Treasures of the Sky,’ by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
A debut novel takes a new spin on the 19th-century western.
PURE COLOR
Uncovered review by Marina Smolens, ACLS Brigantine Branch
Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour is a philosophical endeavor that tells the story of
Mira, a woman who goes to school to be an art critic. While attending, she
meets a woman named Annie, to whom she is very drawn. The story centers around
her relationship to Annie, as well as to her father, who dies during the course
of the novel. After his death, Mira falls into a leaf, and is only able to
escape it through Annie’s care for her. The title Pure Colour seems
apt due to the fact that this book is built mostly on emotion, rather than an
abundance of details or images. A green blob is seen on the cover of the book,
and this book indeed “feels” very green and abstract. The
abstractness of it allows space for the reader to imagine themselves in this
world she has created (am I a bird, a fish, or a bear?), and green is the color
of the heart, of love, of nature, of serenity. Heti captures all of this in a
somewhat surreal fashion. Using Mira as our guide, we are led to question the
meaning of art, culture, death, love, and our relationships to both people and
things.
Down on the Black Bayou, a Family History Repeats Itself
In “The Crocodile Bride,” Ashleigh Bell Pedersen unravels four generations of abuse and survival.
The Man Who Made Thinking Sexy
Jerry Z. Muller’s “Professor of Apocalypse” tells the story of Jacob Taubes, who is largely forgotten today but was at the center of intellectual life after the war.
Review: ‘Now Do You Know Where You Are,’ by Dana Levin
In “Now Do You Know Where You Are,” the poet Dana Levin learns to write again and comes to terms with personal and political trauma.
Candyman [Blu-Ray]
Author: DaCosta, Nia, 1989- film director, screenwriter. Peele, Jordan, 1979- screenwriter, film producer. Rosenfeld, Win, screenwriter, film producer. Cooper, Ian (Producer), film producer. Abdul-Mateen, Yahya, II, 1986- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: CANDYMAN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Published: 2021
Call Number: CANDYMAN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Candyman [Blu-Ray]
Author: DaCosta, Nia, 1989- film director, screenwriter. Peele, Jordan, 1979- screenwriter, film producer. Rosenfeld, Win, screenwriter, film producer. Cooper, Ian (Producer), film producer. Abdul-Mateen, Yahya, II, 1986- actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: CANDYMAN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Published: 2021
Call Number: CANDYMAN BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Write for your life
Author: Quindlen, Anna, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 808.02
Format: Books
Summary: "Write for Your Life is a guide for those who don't, won't, or think they can't write, what Anna Quindlen calls "civilians." Using examples past, present and future--from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison to members of her own family--Quindlen makes vivid all the ways in which writing connects us, to ourselves and to those we cherish. From love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today, and using her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in an enduring form is more important than ever. All of our histories, of current events and personal challenges, can be understood and passed down through the written word; "to write the present," Quindlen says, "is to believe in the future." Write for Your Life is a clarion call to pick up the pen, and find yourself"--
Published: 2022
Call Number: 808.02
Format: Books
Summary: "Write for Your Life is a guide for those who don't, won't, or think they can't write, what Anna Quindlen calls "civilians." Using examples past, present and future--from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison to members of her own family--Quindlen makes vivid all the ways in which writing connects us, to ourselves and to those we cherish. From love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today, and using her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in an enduring form is more important than ever. All of our histories, of current events and personal challenges, can be understood and passed down through the written word; "to write the present," Quindlen says, "is to believe in the future." Write for Your Life is a clarion call to pick up the pen, and find yourself"--
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