The very word “Sahara” can conjure up a number of images, perhaps of gleaming artifacts from long-gone, exotic civilizations. Or of a vast, sandy emptiness, populated solely by camels […]
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Review: For Your Next Vampire Fix, Pick Up A Copy Of ‘The Beautiful’
A murderer roams free under the cover of night, stalking the shimmering streets of New Orleans while the city sleeps. Except, as it turns out, the city isn’t asleep […]
Review: ‘Ghosts of Gold Mountain’ Takes A Hard Look At The Untold Story Of The ‘Railroad Chinese’
Most people have some awareness that a large chunk of the Transcontinental Railroad was built by Chinese immigrants in the years following the Civil War. Beginning in Sacramento, the […]
Review: ‘Miracle Creek’ Is Author Angie Kim’s Explosive Debut Novel
“Miracle Creek” begins with a lie. A small lie, but a lie nonetheless. What ensues in this slim novel is a courtroom drama that investigates the mysterious explosion of […]
Review: Debut Author T Kira Madden Learns To Let Go In ‘Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls’
Ahh … the idyllic dream of American boyhood. It’s been romanticized in everything from “The Andy Griffith Show” to Richard Linklater’s eponymous film chronicling the whole thing. But what about […]
‘Insurrecto’ Is A Bitingly Vicious And Funny Romp Through Filipino History
Most people have never heard of the bloody Philippine-American War that took place at the turn of the 19th century, when Filipino freedom fighters resisted American imperialists with machetes […]
The Immigrant Novel, 2.1: The Unforgiven Generation
In her review of Sung J. Woo’s Love Love, Euny Hong describes the book as both “a dirge and a paean to the second-generation Korean American.” by EUNY HONG Sung […]
Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Rhee
Michelle Rhee, photographed May 24, 2010, at a Sacramento Press Club event in Sacramento, Calif. © Sacramento Bee/Zuma Press In The Bee Eater, education reporter Richard Whitmire explores the […]
