Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth is an important and necessary read. Chronicling Eric’s coming of age as an Onondaga among Tuscaroras, as well as the terrible trauma faced by his Native relatives, this book is raw and…
In Response to ‘American Dirt’: Own Voices Stories You Should Read Instead
Since its release, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins has been the subject of controversy and a lot of pain for the Latinx book community. American Dirt follows a Mexican woman and her son who are being chased by a cartel.…
8 Star Wars Universe Books to Read in Celebration of The Rise of Skywalker
The Star Wars universe spans across generations of filmgoers and has enchanted audiences for decades. It’s become incredibly embedded into pop culture and produced countless amounts of comics, books, TV shows and spin off material. With the release of The…
Non-Fiction Movie Review: Change is tiresome in latest Olivier Assayas outing
Non-Fiction wastes little time getting to the issues that are at its heart, opening with a discussion of a book on politics that’s causing a stir. Or at least ripples. Seeing as how the film is set in the world…
Q&A with Upcoming Breakout YA Author
Just announced in Publishers Weekly’s Children’s Bookshelf, Cameron Kelly Rosenblum’s debut young adult novel, THE STEPPING OFF PLACE, is a love letter to friendships that span from childhood to adolescence, as well as a careful, honest, and resilient look at…
The Wife Movie Review: Glenn Close’s spectacular performance can’t elevate regressive clichés
The Wife, despite its familiar packaging, believes its method of delivery is substantially more clever than it is. A film whose very title thinks it’s doing something new and subversive, it results in little more than delivering a message as regressive…
Book Review: Lisa Maxwell’s “The Last Magician”
Without spoiling too much, I have to begin my review of Lisa Maxwell’s The Last Magician by remarking that it is one of two novels that, upon finishing it, made me promptly want to scream with frustration. The other novel…