The books we considered for the Third Annual Zócalo Book Prize explored central topics such as how community is affected by technology and partisanship and seemingly off-beat subjects such as how social cohesion is encoded into our brain chemistry. Whatever their differences, the authors of these ...
Only May is a novel about finding out who you are, it’s about the connection to family and to nature. It’s a novel about friendship but mostly it’s about love. It’s such a beautiful, evocative and moving novel. It’s one that slowly weaves a spell around you and you find your...
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“Sex Is a Funny Worddoesn’t just provide kids with clear and honest information about different bodies, what sex is, sexuality, boundaries, and gender, but it offers thoughtful questions and an entryway for parents and caregivers to have meaningful conversations with their kids about these ...
A love poem that takes off from the act of trying to remember forging a name in a hotel register for an assignation that forged something true and lasting, ‘Smith’ is about making one’s mark as artist and responding, intimately, one human to another. To transfer her marks made in res...
Sex at Dawnis a provocative, entertaining book that challenges conventional wisdom about sex, monogamy, marriage, and family. The book re-evaluates human sexual behavior. 18.The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire, by David...
Meanwhile, The One and Only: The One and Only Bob will teach students about the true meaning of friendship and family. When Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister, he turns to the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby, to find courage and hope....
Juliet Escoria Isn’t Afraid of the DarkTalking with the author about her new story collection, addiction, and being honest about human nature. ByEmily Gould booksJune 28, 2024 Read Every Single Smut Book We Featured This WeekThe 81 smut books we’ve written about this week, featuring monste...
Or is it about about forces — cultural, political, or even simply human nature — that cannot be overcome as we try to direct the paths we’re on? Is it about surviving those forces? It may be any of these. Or it may just be a good story, a little bit unsettling but lovely and...
(popularly known now by its English titleThe Hunchback of Nôtre-Dame) was written in large part to save the then-decaying cathedral (post-Revolution, it served as a warehouse), and it succeeded. It is also ironic that, while the fictional character’s metaphor has a point about the ...