Between the World and Me is a letter from father to son. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote it to his own child, Samori Coates, resolving to hide nothing about the lifelong burden he would have to carry as a black man living in America: the constant fear, violence, and injustice. “The struggle is really all I have…
This was my first time reading Love Story by Erich Segal, a classic considered to be the embodiment of romance. I had the vague idea it would be a sweet, innocent cliché of a book. Like its title, it would be the epitome of a sad love story with the heroine dying with her hero…
People see Britt-Marie as an old bat and a nag-bag: she obsesses over the order of forks, knives, and spoons in the cutlery drawer, insists on using a specific brand of window cleaner, and is “socially incompetent.” Newly divorced and unemployed at age sixty-three, Britt-Marie finds herself in the small community of Borg, a town…