Tag: may-june 2026
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Bitter, Candy: Methods to Heal Your self When Your Household Is Damaged (Woodhall Press; April 2026) by Stephanie Weaver explores the devastating influence of kid sexual abuse (CSA) on its survivors. A hybrid self-help memoir, the primary a part of the e-book particulars Weaver’s realization that she was a sufferer of CSA and, extra horrifyingly, by…
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“Adopted individuals typically stay with a quiet, lifelong fracture, a deep sense of being unmoored, a sense of not belonging. No quantity of reassuring phrases fill that void. We’re by no means fairly relaxed. By no means totally dwelling.” — Louise Brown, “Fifteen Minutes” Sure human experiences are ineffable. They’re deeply visceral, altering our…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani In her mid 30s, childless, and single, Karen Babine decides to take a roadtrip to study extra about her household’s Acadian roots. Her route takes her from her residence state of Minnesota, up by way of Canada, all the way down to Maine, after which again throughout the Midwest. Babine’s memoir,…
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Reviewed by Lindsay Bennett Impressed by America’s semiquincentennial (2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), Pulitzer-prize profitable writer Beverly Gage provides us This Land is Your Land: A Highway Journey By U.S. Historical past (Simon & Schuster; April 2026). Guided by her perspective as a historian (Gage teaches American Historical…
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Reviewed by Christy Moore In his new ebook Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry, David Streitfeld quotes Julie Solchek, a younger lady who moved from Tucson to Texas to work in McMurtry’s Archer Metropolis bookstore. Solchek mentioned she made the transfer to the city McMurtry portrayed as small minded and dying in…
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Reviewed by Chanda Daniels When Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw stated, “Maybe mother had been proper that backtalking may get me someplace,” I started to replicate on all of the sincere conversations that landed on lower than enthusiastic ears and the place we might be with out them. As a fellow Black lady with an aversion to…
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Reviewed by Ben Winderman Terrence P. Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us: Responsibility, Marriage, and Household (Bloomsbury Educational; Feb. 2026) courageously confronts institutional issues embedded within the tradition/profession of policing. Dwyer, retired from the New York State Police after a 22-year profession experiences upon “the job’s” inherent hypocrisies, its underworld actors, its dysfunctional paperwork, and the…
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Reviewed by Brian Lee Knopp In 2016, writers Ander Monson and Megan Campbell created a music-themed match during which sixty-four songs and their corresponding essays have been pitted towards one another in successive brackets till there was a single winner. They began with March Unhappiness (Unhappy 90s Indie Songs), producing the essays themselves at first,…
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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…