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Book Review: Half the Sky

By Jess O'Connor Dialogue is the only way to instigate social change. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn understood this when they co-authored their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide in 2009. The book is a series of stories, woven together by carefully crafted argumentation and [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

Book Review: Someone

By Sierra Maciorowski People are carried away from Marie’s Brooklyn neighborhood from time to time, for different reasons. Some die. Some are sent to mental institutions. Some get married. But whatever the reason, those who leave are always remembered, and though Marie outgrows the neighborhood children who play ball on [...]

By | December 26th, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: The Anatomy of Dreams: A Novel

By Sierra Maciorowski Your eyes dart open. In the shadows beside your bed, you see a figure—not of a table, nor a lamp, but of a man. He sits, crouched, as you nervously slide the covers off, and doesn’t move as you grab the knife that you always keep under [...]

By | December 8th, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: Brain on Fire

By Sierra Maciorowski Flight risk. Those words re­verberate through her mind, as she pictures the orange wristband over and over again. Flight risk. What does it mean? Why is she here, in an un­known hospital? It takes one month to find out. Journalist Susannah Caha­lan was 24 years old, finally [...]

By | June 2nd, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: A Tale for the Time Being

By Sierra Maciorowski Heartbreakingly beautiful and terrifyingly abstract, A Tale for the Time Being’s soul lies in the delightful character of Naoko Yasutani, a 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl with a penchant for awkward self-expression. Her tale weaves the past, present, and future in a mindful knot, leaving the reader almost no [...]

By | April 8th, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: The Land of Green Plums

By Sierra Maciorowski It’s rare to find a translated book that copies precisely the feeling of the original language, but The Land of Green Plums manages to do just that. Author Herta Muller, with unnatural punctuation and startling imagery, conveys the lack of clarity which Romania faced under former leader [...]

By | March 3rd, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: The Power of Habit

By Sierra Maciorowski What do you do when you first wake up? Chances are, even unwittingly, your morning is filled with specific, unique habits. Whether you brush your teeth before or after breakfast, or skip breakfast altogether, each part of your daily routine is habit-dependent. And, as anyone who has [...]

By | January 1st, 2014|0 Comments

Book Review: David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

By Sierra Maciorowski On the ancient battlefield, the shepherd and the giant stand with their respective weapons. One, a mighty broadsword. The other, a slingshot. Most people today know how the story ends: the shepherd, David, defeats the giant through luck and surprise, stunning the giant with one quick shot. [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Book Review: Elsewhere–A Dreadful Beauty

By Sierra Maciorowski A childhood spent in Gloversville, the small town which would become the basis for Russo’s future writing endeavors; a young adulthood spent around the nation as his mother’s support and companion; and an adulthood keeping together both his mother’s life and his own... these are the components [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

By Sierra Maciorowski Old photographs tell stories across time, passing on images of what has been and never will be again. However, very few photographs travel through loops in time, have content that borders on impossible, and eventually lead to an elderly grandfather murdered by strange creatures called “hollowgasts." As [...]

By | October 1st, 2012|0 Comments