Paul Kalanithi’s “When Breath Becomes Air” arrives not as memoir but as testimony—a neurosurgeon’s field notes from the border country between life and death, written by someone who crossed from...
Book Reviews
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Water Moon: A Luminous Meditation on Time, Choice, and the Spaces Between Worlds
A 1000-Word Analysis of Samantha Sotto Yambao’s Enchanting Novel Samantha Sotto Yambao’s Water Moon is a shimmering example of what happens when literary fiction embraces the fantastical without losing its...
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A Veteran’s Counterargument: Why “The War on Warriors” Fails the Evidence Test
As a woman veteran, I approach Pete Hegseth’s “The War on Warriors” not as an abstract policy debate but as a direct challenge to my service and that of thousands...
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Weaving Worlds: The Transformative Vision of “Braiding Sweetgrass”
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” achieves something rare in environmental literature: it successfully bridges Western scientific methodology and Indigenous wisdom traditions,...