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Interviewed by Rae Pagliarulo When Brenda Miller’s newest guide, Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner Home Books; April 2026) was launched, I instantly knew that I needed to cowl it for Hippocampus Journal. What I didn’t know was that I’d get a lot greater than an ARC of the guide — Brenda…
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Reviewed by Nan J. Bauer The maths is primary: Meals is life. Withholding it’s energy. It’s an equation we see each day to horrible impact within the present Palestinian and Sudanese genocides; what bombs and bullets don’t kill, hunger finishes, much less effectively and with higher cruelty. We don’t must look onerous to search out…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Though I used to be disillusioned to be taught that I am not America’s beloved fruit, Priyanka Kumar’s hybrid memoir, The Gentle Between Apple Timber: Rediscovering the Wild By way of a Beloved American Fruit (Island Press; Sept. 2025), half botany and zoology, half ecology and local weather, and half loving portrait of the…
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I’m opening this interview with a little bit of trepidation, very like once I was a toddler, lifting the duvet of a childhood favourite, The Monster at The Finish of this Guide. In that story, Grover, a Sesame Road character, frantically tries to forestall the reader from turning the web page, solely to seek out out…
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I’m not precisely positive what it’s about true crime that’s so alluring, why everybody turns into an armchair detective when a giant case breaks into nationwide information, however they do. I learn novelist Benjamin Hale’s forthcoming ebook, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning within the Ozarks (Harper; March, 2026), earlier than it was publicly…
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My pal Andrea made me a mixtape in highschool after I’d kissed my first boyfriend. The mixtape centered across the made-up fairytale of “Princess Kristine and Prince ___,” and between the chunks of narration Andrea had written and browse aloud, she performed related ‘90s-era songs like “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer. The mixtape…
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I got here up with the concept final spring, after greater than a decade of educating Tim O’Brien’s The Issues They Carried to twin enrollment highschool seniors. By then, I knew the narratives and constructions so properly, I might have listed its chapter titles solely from reminiscence. College students actually connect with The Issues They…
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Reviewed by Vicki Mayk As somebody who writes micro essays, I used to be desirous to overview Beth Ann Fennelly’s assortment of micro memoirs, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton, February 2026). I appreciated her first e-book, Heating and Cooling. And now that I’ve learn the newest e-book by a author whose identify has develop into synonymous…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber With over 100 books printed, the Object Classes sequence from Bloomsbury Educational goals to uncover the “hidden lives of odd issues.” These slim paperbacks may be learn in a single or two sittings. They’re all fantastically designed. Books begging to be purchased in print, and delightfully entertaining and academic. An ideal approach…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak On the time of writing (not publishing) this evaluation, it’s formally 206 days till Thursday, August 27, 2026, week zero of the faculty soccer season. If that day isn’t circled in your calendar, then possibly Soccer by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press; January 2026) isn’t for you. Or possibly it’s? Let me…