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Review: Cultish
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell explores the linguistic capacities and repercussions of cult group ideologies through a sociocultural lens with witty commentary and direct storytelling. Published in [...]
Review: The Living Infinite
The Living Infinite: A Novel, by Chantel Acevedo, crafts a historical fiction story based on Eulalia, the nineteenth-century Spanish daughter to the monarch, or Infanta. Eulalia was not an heir [...]
Review: The Maniac
Three years after Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World debuted as a bestselling translation of historical metafiction in 2020, The Maniac was released, a foreboding novel of [...]
Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Originally published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s fourth and final novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has come to be regarded as part of the canon of black American literature, [...]
Review: Cousin Bette
An exploration of Honoré de Balzac’s feuilleton, or serialized novel Cousin Bette is apt to begin with this quote: “Women always persuade men that they are lions, with a will [...]
Review: The Shipping News
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994, The Shipping News is an enchanting yet unconventional love story of a single father, Quoyle, who returns to a long-lost family [...]
Review: Gun Island
A contemporary retelling of a Bengali myth, Gun Island is a novel brimming with magical realism while simultaneously fraught with the modern calamities of human-driven climate change and immigration. Amitav [...]
Review: “The Vegetarian”
Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International Prize the year after it was translated into [...]
Ferrante’s genial friend
Recently ranked number one on the "The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century" by "The New York Times Book Review," Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, or, to give it [...]
Author
Gabrielle Giannone is a writer and artist. She runs a small business. She lived in Venice, Italy, in 2024, but has since returned to the U.S. and is working on getting dual citizenship. She writes for a travel magazine based in the Outer Banks, NC, as well as the monthly About That Book column. A voracious reader and lover of the arts, she aspires to write her own novels.