An unfiltered honesty defines Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile. A collection of seventeen, personal essays, the book offers a cacophonous blend of uproarious humor and intimate…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 26th
Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel The Nursery is visceral and uncomfortable— Molnar presents the reader with a portrait of new motherhood with all its agonies, its…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 4th
Musical Tables, the newest release from former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is a refreshing embrace of minimalistic, short form poetry: Paired with themes…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 27th
George Saunders’ newest collection of short stories, Liberation Day, is an intriguing blend of realism and dystopian, but Saunders shines brightest in the stories that…
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The summer before senior year at Berkeley, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken is killed in a carjacking. The tragedy happens hours after Ken’s housewarming party, a…
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“called forward.” These words mark Ocean Vuong’s opening acknowledgements of his poetrycollection Time is a Mother, dedicated to Vuong’s partner, Peter, and Vuong’s late mother,…
Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mandel Emily St. John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 12th
In Intimacies, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, the unnamed narrator moves to the Hague for a one-year gig as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court,…
Sunday Staff Pick: April 25th
The Earliest Witnesses by G. C. Waldrep Can we touch the gods? What does the body feel when language fabricates transparency? How do we perceive…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 22nd
Must I Go by Yiyun Li Lilia, an 81-year-old mother of five, grandmother of seventeen, and widow of three, is the anchor of Yiyun Li’s…