The Self-Made Matriarch: Forging a Dynasty Beyond the Shadow of a Throne
A deep-dive review of Tina Knowles’s memoir, Matriarch. Explore a summary, character analysis, and the explained ending of the book about Beyoncé’s mother’s incredible life.
The Pull of Two Stars: A Review of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere
An in-depth review and analysis of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere. Explore a summary of the plot, characters, and the ending explained in this deep dive.
The Gilded Cage and the Ghost in the Machine: An Analysis of Jakob Kerr’s “Dead Money”
An in-depth review and analysis of Jakob Kerr’s Dead Money. Explore the characters, summary, and the explained ending of this gripping Silicon Valley thriller.
The Unbearable Weight of What Remains: On Geraldine Brooks’ Memorial Days
The Cartography of a Shattered World There are certain books that arrive not as mere stories, but as geological events.
The Illusion of Sunrise: On Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping
The Unquenchable Fire We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, but what happens when the
The Kingdom of Beautiful Lies: On Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness
A Heaven Made of Corn Cake To live in America in the 21st century is to be an unwilling connoisseur
The Price of Trust: A Reckoning with Johnson & Johnson in Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears
An American Sickness There are certain names so deeply woven into the fabric of American life they feel less like
The Pyre of Legacy: On S. A. Cosby’s King of Ashes
An Empire of Ash There are certain truths that only fire can reveal. In the landscape of contemporary American fiction,
The Tyranny of Forever: On Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore
The Drowning of Memory There are certain landscapes in literature that are not merely settings, but battlegrounds of the soul.
The Unbearable Bigness of Being: On Leila Mottley’s The Girls Who Grew Big
The Placenta and the Pocketknife There are certain truths a novel can tell that nonfiction cannot touch. They are truths