THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE 1619 PROJECT – NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES

  I’ve been eagerly looking forward to this book since I first found out about it. It’s an expansion of an award-winning article published in The New York Times in 2019 to commemorate 400 years since the first ship carrying African slaves landed in America. It was a sensation, bringing a history not often taught READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | TOMBOY SURVIVAL GUIDE – IVAN COYOTE

  I read Care Of by Ivan Coyote, which was such a perfect book to read during times of doom and despair. It offered connection, empathy, and a small but significant opportunity to leave my existence behind. I was already a fan of Coyote’s, but that book really clinched it. I’ve had Tomboy Survival Guide READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY – DOUGLAS ADAMS

  Technically, this isn’t the first time I’ve read this book. My parents, odd ducks that they are, played the audiobook of this for all of us to listen to when I was about 6 or 7. I can’t remember it, of course, but it did feel generally familiar and comforting. Probably because of this READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS – SULEIKA JAOUAD

  So I’ve had my yearly hibernation period and didn’t finish a book for nearly three months. I normally resurface a bit sooner, but, you know, Omicron. I unexpectedly am now homeschooling… again. I love it, but it’s all-consuming! I have picked at a few books – Under the Whispering Door, made quite good headway READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | YOU ARE YOUR BEST THING – TARANA BURKE & BRENÉ BROWN, EDS.

  Ever since May 2020, when George Floyd, a Black man, was suffocated – murdered – by a White police officer, race has become both a suddenly trendy and deeply divisive issue. It’s always been simmering under the surface of any interaction across racial lines, but one side of that equation was often oblivious to READ MORE