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1 min read 2021-11-26 23:12:14

Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training by Adam Stern [in Booklist]

Adam Stern began his Harvard career feeling like an impostor when he was matched into a Harvard Medical School psychiatry residency impeded, he

1 min read 2021-11-24 23:12:21

*STARRED REVIEW Three ancient, traditional Japanese myths get fabulously, subversively transformed in Tokyo-based, Spanish Japanese graphic creator

1 min read 2021-11-23 23:12:24

When new kid Livy enters middle school, she doesn’t yet have friends, but she’s not exactly alone. Viola, her identical blue shadow no one else

1 min read 2021-11-22 23:12:04

Expanding the insightful delights introduced in global bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2020), readers are welcomed back to Funiculi

1 min read 2021-11-20 00:20:12

*STARRED REVIEW Benjamin Lay, small in stature with dwarfism, was a monumental historical figure almost lost until historian Marcus Rediker

1 min read 2021-11-18 23:12:00

An 1892 “emancipated duel” between two women is about to take place as the overseeing (female) doctor drolly remarks, “we will never be

1 min read 2021-11-17 23:12:57

An unexpected airport encounter – with an inevitable flight delay – reunites two university classmates in Antoine Wilson’s disturbing yet

1 min read 2021-11-16 23:12:55

What began as a series by journalist Masuma Ahuja for The Lily (a product of the Washington Post) expands here into the enlightening Girlhood.

1 min read 2021-11-15 23:12:17

*STARRED REVIEW Covering most of the 20th century across the Korean peninsula, Juhea Kim’s debut novel wondrously reveals broken families and

1 min read 2021-11-12 23:12:14

At 4, Adaugo lost both parents and a best friend to fire. Grandma Bibi left Nigeria to raise her. Eleven years later, Grandma sends Addy from their

1 min read 2021-11-11 23:12:11

In her first book in a dozen years, Lan Samantha Chang (All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, 2010) – the first woman and first Asian American

1 min read 2021-11-10 23:12:33

Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle (Your Heart, My Sky) masterfully blends inspiring symbolism with sobering reality in Light for All,

1 min read 2021-11-09 23:12:55

*STARRED REVIEW The works of Yoshiharu Tsuge, credited with the “invention” of literary manga, finally arrived in the U.S. 65 years after he

1 min read 2021-11-08 23:12:00

Cats have long appeared in Japanese fiction, especially popularized in I Am a Cat (1906) by the father of modern Japanese literature, Natsume

1 min read 2021-11-05 22:12:42

Journalist Danelle Dreilinger resurrects, elevates, and applauds the superwoman, subversive history of “home economics,” a field now more