Does Reading Make Us Nostalgic for a Simpler Time?
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Have you ever picked up a book and, as soon as you started to read it, you felt like a child again? Suddenly, your imagination and…
Reviews
Review of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer I hesitate to label Hillary Clinton’s What Happened as a political memoir. It’s much more than that. It is part feminist manifesto, part contemplation on loss and…
War History: As Told By Graphic Novels
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer Artists find millions of devices to filter their art through. For some it is poetry or photography. And, for one very particular group, graphic novels are a…
Revisiting a Classic: Kurt Vonnegut Delivers a Masterpiece with Breakfast of Champions
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Originally published in 1973, Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions offers some of the wittiest satire in the history of American literature. Vonnegut’s signature political and…
Mixed Feelings about Book-to-Film
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer In January of 2016, I took a flight to Florida from T.F. Green Airport in Providence, RI, that changed my life. As we do every year before…
#myfavoritebook – Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Sophia Uy//Blog Writer Uprooted by Naomi Novik is a fantasy novel heavily inspired by Eastern European folklore and one of my favorite books in the last five years. For a…