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‘Set Boundaries, Find Peace’ Review: A Great Place to Start
‘Set Boundaries, Find Peace’ Review: A Great Place to Start
“Boundaries will set you free.”

“Boundaries will set you free.”

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‘A Tale for the Time Being’ Review: Messages Across Oceans and Eras
‘A Tale for the Time Being’ Review: Messages Across Oceans and Eras
Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” presents an alternating, first-person point-of-view from the perspectives of a teenage girl, Nao, and a middle-aged woman, Ruth, who is — and maybe in some ways isn’t — the actual novelist.
Written by Susan Dawson-Cook
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‘Rifqa’ Poetry Book Review: El Kurd On Palestinian Dignity
‘Rifqa’ Poetry Book Review: El Kurd On Palestinian Dignity
El Kurd named his poetry collection “Rifqa” after his grandmother, Rifqa El Kurd, who stood strong against the Israeli occupation.
Written by Dina A.
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‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Review: Facts, Conspiracies or a Bit of Both?
‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Review: Facts, Conspiracies or a Bit of Both?
Former President Joe Biden may have preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, but his legacy from the COVID pandemic and AIDS epidemic is still under review.
Written by Charles Holmes
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‘Raising Hare’ Review: Author Chloe Dalton Rescues a Leveret
‘Raising Hare’ Review: Author Chloe Dalton Rescues a Leveret
“Raising Hare” is a somewhat ironic title because the author makes every effort to avoid treating the leveret like a pet and to allow the growing hare to experience a normal life of freedom in the wild.
Written by Susan Dawson-Cook

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‘A Tale for the Time Being’ Review: Messages Across Oceans and Eras

Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” presents an alternating, first-person point-of-view from the perspectives of a teenage girl, Nao, and a middle-aged woman, Ruth, who is — and maybe in some ways isn’t — the actual novelist.

‘Rifqa’ Poetry Book Review: El Kurd On Palestinian Dignity

El Kurd named his poetry collection “Rifqa” after his grandmother, Rifqa El Kurd, who stood strong against the Israeli occupation.

‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Review: Facts, Conspiracies or a Bit of Both?

Former President Joe Biden may have preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, but his legacy from the COVID pandemic and AIDS epidemic is still under review.

‘Raising Hare’ Review: Author Chloe Dalton Rescues a Leveret

“Raising Hare” is a somewhat ironic title because the author makes every effort to avoid treating the leveret like a pet and to allow the growing hare to experience a normal life of freedom in the wild.

‘Rifqa’ Poetry Book Review: El Kurd On Palestinian Dignity

‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Review: Facts, Conspiracies or a Bit of Both?

‘Raising Hare’ Review: Author Chloe Dalton Rescues a Leveret

‘The Vegetarian’ Review: Can No Protagonist POV Work?

‘Listen, Liberal’ Review: Democrats vs. the Working Class

‘Red Clocks’ Book Review: Where Abortion Policy is Headed?

‘Too Short to Box with God’ Poetry Review: Black History in the Ring

‘The Bell Jar’ Review: Depression, 50s Feminism and Coming of Age

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Manga Review: Like Reading a Few More Filler Episodes

‘Everlasting Spring’ Poetry Book Review: Hope for Every Season

‘Black Prophetic Fire’ Review: The Genius of Influential Black Figures

‘The Anxiety of Influence’ Review: How Poets Struggle Against Each Other

‘Democracy Matters’ Review: Has Democracy Ever Worked?

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Review: Science Alone Can’t Save Us

‘The Midnight Library’ Review: Clear Themes, Unclear Rules

‘Girl, Interrupted’ Book Review: Sanity, Insanity and the Female Experience

‘Listen, Liberal’ Review: Democrats vs. the Working Class