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☆ Newly Published, From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
AMERICAN WHITELASH: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, by Wesley Lowery. (Yale, $35.) A historian explains how California “welcomed, honed and legalized” human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in today’s prisons. RIVERMOUTH: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, by Alejandra Oliva. Reflecting on her family’s fluid relationship to the southern U.S. border and her experience working with asylum seekers, Oliva meditates on the seemingly insurmountable barriers migrants face today.
Persons: Wesley Lowery, Barack Obama, Lowery, Jean Pfaelzer, California “, Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz, Alejandra Oliva, Oliva meditates Organizations: Yale, Astra House Locations: CALIFORNIA, California, Brazil, U.S
☆ New Story Collections on Life’s Absurdities and Pains
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Jen Vafidis | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Gender, relationships, family and the meaning of pop culture. But does “Almost Famous” have a scene when the sky opens to reveal giant chopsticks hovering over salmon roe as big as skyscrapers? A minor description from Theodore McCombs’s inquisitive fantasia URANIANS (Astra House, 210 pp., $25), his debut collection, illuminated the whole book for me. The main character in “Laguna Heights,” frustrated by memory gaps caused by his top-shelf neurotechnology, is called the “sort of man pleased to remember that old movies are still in the world.” He’s not pleased; he’s the kind of person who would be pleased. This detached phrasing, however tossed-off, tore me out of the moment, and confronted me with an iffy behavioral theory: Identity predetermines emotions and actions, and emotions and actions reinforce identity, in one smooth loop.
Persons: I’ve, Reiko, bender, you’ve, Theodore McCombs’s, fantasia, ”, He’s Organizations: Astra House Locations: Laguna Heights
☆ In These Stories, Society Lets Individuals Down Again and Again
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Gwen E. Kirby | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The lens of the story moves from his point of view to that of the missing girl, who is found after three days of sheltering inside a hollow tree to hide her first period from the prettier, wealthier girls. To the outside world, she is missing; she sees it as protecting herself. Reich’s stories have a density to them: long paragraphs weighted with rich description, bricks placed carefully to build constructions capable of supporting the weight of history. Alejandro Varela’s THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT MORE STRESS: Stories (244 pp., Astra House, $26) is a master class in analyzing the unspoken. In “She and Her Kid and Me and Mine,” a gay, half-Salvadoran, half-Colombian father chats with a straight white mother while their young children have a play date.
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