Reader Stories
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Dead and Alive: Essays Review: What Can Words Really Hold?
This essay collection will make you reconsider how you live, not just how you think.
Read storyArt Cure Book Review: The Science Behind Why Singing Saved Me
Your personal art experience meets hard science in this mind-blowing book about why creativity actually heals us.
Read storyBaldwin: A Love Story Review: How One Man’s Love Reshaped His Voice
One man's love story that redefined how we see James Baldwin.
Read storyMother Mary Comes to Me: The Woman Who Was Both Shelter and Storm
A memoir that asks: what happens when the woman who raised you is both your home and your hurricane?
Read storyA Marriage at Sea Book Review: The Deepest Test of Us
One marriage. 117 days on a life raft. What survives when survival is all that’s left?
Read storyCareless People Book Review: The People Who Stay Silent
A diplomat walks into Facebook. She walks out with a story about how systems eat souls.
Read storyEl Paso: A book that made me question my own hometown
One city, five families, a century of blood and memory. This book made me question my own hometown.
Read storyRough House Book Review: The People Who Stay
A book that made me rethink what it means to chase a dream nobody else believes in.
Read storyI’ll Tell You When I’m Home Review: Belonging Is Not a Place
A psychologist’s raw memoir that will make you question where you truly belong.
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