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The Year 2021 In Books

The Year 2021 In Books

It is December 2021 — a time when you wish you had read more! But it is a fulfilling year nonetheless.
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Darshna Rekha
Can Disagreement Be Productive?

Can Disagreement Be Productive?

The answer is as old as Socrates: Yes.
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Michael Shammas
Perspectives on the Economics of Poverty

Perspectives on the Economics of Poverty

An in-depth look at why certain nations remain impoverished despite access to cheap medicine and despite infrastructural advances.
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Richard K. Yu
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Book Review: Notes from the Column of Memory by Wendy Drexler — Stylus

Book Review: Notes from the Column of Memory by Wendy Drexler — Stylus

Some poets never peak. Leonard Cohen never did. And unlike those who churned out clunkers late in life-William Wordsworth with…
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Peter Bates
Bringing up Bebe Book Review….Quality of life matters

Bringing up Bebe Book Review….Quality of life matters

Bring up Bebe is written by Pamela Duckerman, American journalist who relocated to Paris, France who shares her insights on the wisdom of…
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Anureet Kaur

Bewilderment by Richard Powers…had me bewildered

Richard Powers, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer had me intrigued by the synopsis of the novel Bewilderment; a mysterious story about a…
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Anureet Kaur
Book Review: The Plague by Albert Camus

Book Review: The Plague by Albert Camus

If you think COVID bad you ain’t seen nothing yet…
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Steve Malen
Book Review: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Review: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

My previous book review was on the book “In Praise of Folly” by Desiderius Erasmus. This was also the last time that I read a book as part…
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Steve Malen
Book Review: Mom Brain

Book Review: Mom Brain

Parents, drop what you’re doing and read this book
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Laura Marie
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Another Look at Orwell’s 1984

Another Look at Orwell’s 1984

A closer look at the resurgence of 1984 after the NSA scandals and older ideas.
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Richard K. Yu
Rimrock and Paradox: A book review of Amy Irvine’s Desert Cabal: A new season in the wilderness

Rimrock and Paradox: A book review of Amy Irvine’s Desert Cabal: A new season in the wilderness

It’s hard to let go of old friends. I discovered the redrock and rimrock country of the southwestern U.S. in the same year I uncovered one…
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Natalie Dawson
The Underlying Message Scaachi Sent Us

The Underlying Message Scaachi Sent Us

Who would have thought that a memoir detailing Indian culture and bittersweet college stories would’ve have actually been about…
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Rachael Nunemacher
Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek

Lead an interesting life and you will be interesting.
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Arun Rafi
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