At 17, Anthony Baxter becomes an orphan after losing both his mother, Helena, and his father, Edward, to AIDS in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Due to his family’s secretive ways, Anthony only learned the diagnosis at 11, when a friend showed him the film Philadelphia. On the day of his father’s funeral, Anthony seeks out…
It’s Sam’s last day as the janitor aboard an intergalactic space station, and his best friend Kai is throwing a retirement party to celebrate. But things quickly go south when a mysterious epidemic turns the station’s residents into zombielike creatures that feed on flesh and subsume victims into a giant mega-monster. The only thing that…
Psychologist Marjorie “Jorie” Holmes lives in a society where women control everything; following an event known as the Shift, men are no longer around, and the creations of men, including books, have been eradicated. The purpose of this was to “expunge the negative effects of the patriarchal system,” as men are considered “brutal, bloodthirsty, barbaric…
Stretching from the 1820s to the 1970s, this novel tells a sweeping story anchored by the matriarchs of two interconnected families in Oceania. The prologue, titled “Three Dreams of Grandmother,” introduces motifs that recur throughout: trees, song, water, the kingfisher bird. These images are the family inheritance and take on meaning only as the story…
Enrique Pedraza is a 17-year-old high school senior in San Antonio. Even though his father insists that “Mexicans don’t play tennis,” Enrique loves the sport. As the best player in his district, he has the chance to teach at a kids’ summer camp at St. Benedict’s, a local college, in exchange for free lessons. On…
Emily Castillo is a struggling Mexican American writer barely subsisting as a high school English teacher when her brilliant and socially awkward tech bro ex-boyfriend, Theo Smith, makes her an AI assistant. Emily has an MFA from Iowa and a few published short stories but no agent and only a partially completed novel. Without her…
This week on Dezeen, architecture studio Foster + Partners and US studio Manica unveiled their design for Generali Stadium in Milan, which will become home to local football clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan. The stadium will seat 71,500 people and be built alongside the 99-year-old San Siro stadium, which will eventually be torn down.…
A 500-day campaign to find and identify fallen soldiers has unearthed hundreds of bodies, but not everyone gets a chance at closure.
The former vice premier was one of just six women to have served on the Chinese Communist Party’s elite Politburo, though she was excluded from the top ranks of power.
The premier’s comments represent a major change in British policy, but they are unlikely to satisfy those who hoped that reparations would follow.