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PageTurners: In Both Fiction and Nonfiction, This Week’s Authors and Characters Play ‘Make Believe’
We aren’t the only critics to describe Percival Everett’s novel The Trees as ‘page turning’; James Baldwin’s prophetic essays are now available in paperback.
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PageTurners: ‘Double Consciousness’ and Dual Paths of Persistence at the Forefront of Black Literature
An 800-page love letter dedicated to W.E.B. Du Bois stands in stark contrast to a graphic novel about Rep. John Lewis and a dozen other divergent literary tales
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PageTurners: Tryin’ to Imagine What (YA Literature) Looks Like
Young adult titles that look at adult themes, fantasy and magic, while Nichole Perkins gives us an anthology of essays inspired by Prince and more.
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PageTurners: The Simultaneous Attack and Guidance of Literature
At some point in time, we all pick up a book to help us find a better way of understanding who we are. This week, we see that guidance spread across genres
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PageTurners: Let's Go!! A Plethora of Summer Reads to Add to Your #TBR
Dear every single Black author who dropped a book today, As an avid reader, I gracefully thank you for giving me material to make up the longest summer to be read (TBR) list in the history of summer TBRs. The wide variety of books that started off the month is not only compelling but absolutely…
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PageTurners: How We Translate the Reality of the Black Experience in America
It’s no secret that there is a disparity between the Black and white experiences in America. While the protests of 2020 were supported by a large number of white individuals, there is still constant pressure on Black people to educate the rest of the world on the struggles and obstacles we face daily. While that…
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PageTurners: Traversing the Literary Worlds Holding Us Down
You know that feeling when you pick up a book for the first time and think, “yeah, I’m going to read this in all of two seconds” because of how quickly the storyline sucks you in? Well, the books released in just the first week of March will reel you in faster than you can…