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We, the Swimmers

Julie Otsuka’s perspective-bending novel should be our call to action

From the first page, Julie Otsuka’s third novel, The Swimmers, teaches readers how to read this book. Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini We start with a simple, omniscient description of the pool…

Outwardly Fine, Inwardly Lost

Katie Kitamura’s international novel hits close to home

From the outside, the unnamed protagonist of Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, Intimacies, is an elite woman who is excellent at her job as an interpreter for the International Criminal Court…

Three-Day Business Trip

A life-changing journey 

…is pleased to publish the winners in our Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest. Regarding Mirsad Kulovic’s winning essay, contest judge Mary Laura Philpott writes: WOW. I read most of this…

War in the Streets

Don Winslow’s City on Fire sets a mob war in gray 1980s New England

City on Fire, the latest thriller by Don Winslow, is unapologetic, brutal, and in-your-face — as any good crime novel should be. But City on Fire is better than good….

Singin’ in the Rain

It’s not COVID; my throat is sore from singing all day

Here’s a little secret about me: I love singing. Photo: Pixabay My closest friends already know this, and maybe they’re close because they’ve heard me sing at one point or another (and…

Double the Thrills

Greaney serves up twice the action in a Gray Man prequel, Sierra Six

There is twice the action at hand for fans of Mark Greaney’s Gray Man as the covert operative chases down a ghost from his past in the new thriller Sierra…

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