TOMOKO ​The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco​​ Cantú I'm currently in the middle of a book due out early next year: The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú. It's this very​ ​lyrically rendered memoir about a young man who starts working for the Border Patrol after studying the socio-political atmosphere surrounding … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

  CHRISTINE Provenance by Ann Leckie Confession time—Provenance, which (as I’ve found out) takes place in the same universe as her Ancillary Justice trilogy, is the first I’ve read of Ann Leckie’s novels. I’m hooked! Provenance is fast-paced, with enough details about this universe to keep me reading without feeling lost. Leckie does a great … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

  CHRIS Dune by Frank Herbert I've spent this year going back through some old favorites and half-remembered stories looking for... stability? I guess I haven't claimed a firm reason yet, but this second read through Herbert's magnum opus feels so alive and terrifying. The tactile reality of Arrakis keeps boring into me. The byzantine … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

  HILLARY The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller This book came highly recommended, and for good reason. I'm a huge fan of fairy-tale retellings and stories rich with mythology (and romance!). So far, The Song of Achilles is covering all of the bases. The story is told from Patroclus' point of view as he … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

  GREGORY Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Hamid’s Exit West dropped this year and absolutely shook me. And it may be the most important book released this year. So, I had to go back to Hamid’s first novel to see just where this great writer came from. Moth Smoke follows Daru Shezad's fall from his … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

    URIEL It by Stephen King An oldie but a goodie. I’ve been re-reading Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic, It, over the past couple of months in anticipation of the book’s film adaptation coming out later this summer. In case you weren’t already familiar with the story, It follows a group of kids - the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

NATASHA Spill Zone by Scott Westerfield This week I dove into dystopias with Scott Westerfield's new graphic novel, Spill Zone. The novel immediately starts off on a creepy note, with Addison, the protagonist, riding into the restricted "Spill Zone" that used to be the small town of Poughkeepsie to take photographs of the mysterious things … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

CHRIS The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood If you expect a revisionist first person account of The Iliad and The Odyssey as delivered by Queen Penelope's deceased spirit interjected with the chorus of Odysseus' disgraced maids - also deceased [murdered] - to be wry and brash, rejoice. It feels like Atwood deliberately subverted the epic lyricism … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →

JULIA Chemistry by Weike Wang Weike Wang's unnamed narrator is navigating an existential crisis. Well into her work toward a PhD in Chemistry, she questions her drive, despite the field being the lens through which she views the world; a relationship with a man who's just too nice falls victim to her self-sabotage; and an identity … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week →