"Blessed Are Those..."Season One, Episode Three: “Late” “I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen.” They “slaughtered Congress, blamed terrorists,...
The Handmaid's Tale: Us and ThemSeason One, Episode Two: “Birth Day” Early on in this episode, Offred is thrilled to discover that Ofglen is not the “pious little shit”...
The Handmaid's Tale: To See and be Seen:Season One, Episode One: “Offred” After writing my previous post about the prevalence of inaction, ennui, and napping in the novel, The...
“Above All, Avoid Napping"--Handmaid's Tale--First, the BookTV critics are lauding the high quality of the new Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, typically noting...
When the Moon Is Low, Nadia HashimiA beautifully-told story of Fereiba, an intelligent girl and young woman growing up in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. Her poetry-loving spirit...
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: Fredrik BackmanI've got to love a child protagonist who's described early in the book as sitting "reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on...
LaRose, by Louise ErdrichA beautifully intricate story about what it can take to continue living, loving, and striving for some sense of spiritual wholeness in...
