Leaving aside commercial ploys, should these books have been published as they are, entirely? Yes, they should have been published as they are, entirely.

The reader’s own GABA receptors and endorphins are cross-firing along with the pill-popping narrator’s.

The notion that a woman’s virtue derives from virginity enjoys a good deal less currency than it once did. How to deal with those for whom it retains value?

“Catholicism puts them both into a larger musical conversation than the relay between rural South and urban North, between spirituals and swing.”

The book's saved by Ismailov’s storytelling and Rayfield’s translation even when the narrative’s back is bent with too much history and too many characters.

This is a grand, sweeping story with individualized characters and a nuanced perspective that refuses to essentialize war, women, or national identity.

Men orchestrate violence, unpredictable and bloody, from a distance. What grounds ‘Fruit’ is how it destroys myths the closer we get to the violence.

While the digital marketer can embark on a personal branding journey, what is left for the cashier or barista in an age of zero-hour contracts and gig work?