Reviews 17/24

Mar 19, 20205 min read

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Language can often fail us and be manipulated to present a one-dimensional view of my life and to those in the Latinx community,...

Mar 17, 20205 min read

I have the Answer by Kelly Fordon

I am sitting here on day one of social distancing and thinking of all the people in the apartments next to me, seemingly doing the same...

Mar 16, 20206 min read

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

For many in Jamaica, slavery and colonialism are relics better left buried. What does that have to do with us in the 21st century?

Mar 9, 20206 min read

Los Angeles, Latasha Harlins, and the Gap between Fact and Fiction

Review of Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay and Brenda Stevenson’s The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins In the first months of 1992, I...

Mar 8, 20204 min read

Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine your life is overwhelmingly mundane, you are doing okay for yourself but nothing spectacular is happening and your love life is...

Mar 7, 20204 min read

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

‘Korede, he’s dead’ ‘What?’ Every time Korede gets a call from her younger sister she knows nothing but trouble is ahead. Ayoola is young...

Mar 6, 20204 min read

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

The Confessions of Frannie Langton centers on the titular character who is on trial at the Old Bailey in London for the murders of her...

Mar 5, 20206 min read

The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward

The Jetsetters opens with the Perkins family posing for a portrait—which is fitting, given that the entire book is essentially a family...

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