Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • The Trojan War Museum
    “Ayşe Papatya Bucak's stories are wide-ranging and capacious, formally
    playful, and moving.  They speak on behalf of women who are subject to fate
    and the tides of history. They speak of overcoming, of falling prey, of
    overcoming again.  They convey history's full force,...
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  • The Grave on the Wall
    "In this memoir, Brandon Shimoda, an American poet of Japanese descent, tells
    the story of his family, starting with his grandfather, who was transformed
    into an 'enemy alien' by World War II; and in doing so, tells a universal
    story of the horrors of war both physical a...
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  • Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire
    Michelle Peñaloza’s ambitious and remarkable debut searches for a place to
    anchor in spite of a rancorous world where we might have “began as crumbs
    ferried in the beak of waxwings.” These poems read mythic yet contemporary
    in their burst of bloom-song and bright blood stro...
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  • Oval
    "Wilk's debut novel is a strange, vivid thought experiment. In a near-future
    Berlin, scientist Anja lives in an eco-settlement on an artificial mountain .
    . . Anja’s quiet, shy analysis turns a critical eye to our future, asking
    daring questions of how the desire to chan...
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  • They Called Us Enemy
    Host Jenna Yokoyama spoke with two members of the team behind the They Called
    Us Enemy (Top Shelf, 2019), a graphic novel that tells the biographical
    story of George Takei's experience with Japanese American concentration
    camps. Featured are graphic artist Harmony Becker...
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  • Lanny
    “Max Porter's innovative hybrid of fairy tale, fable, and myth cunningly
    evokes the freewheeling fantasies of children at play. . . .The result is a
    puckish celebration of imagination and free spirits rising above the buzz of
    societal scolds and the anxieties of parental...
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  • Exhalation
    “Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr.,
    Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, China
    Miéville, and Kazuo Ishiguro,  Ted Chiang has explored conventional tropes
    of science fiction in highly unconventional wa...
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  • Women Talking
    “One of the first great novels of the year... In a narrative so sharp it
    could draw blood, Miriam Toews' Women Talking asks an immense, weighty
    question: How do women who have lived their entire lives in a society that
    severely limits their agency act when suddenly needi...
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