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Anne Applebaum: Red Famine (Hardcover, 2017, Signal)

Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag …

Deep research; untrustworthy analysis

Deep research on a vital topic, unfortunately analyzed by someone who said that of course farmers hoarded grain (while their neighbors starved to death).

Would be a good starting point for further investigation, but I didn't trust the analysis at all.

Heather Havrilesky: Foreverland (Hardcover, 2022, Ecco)

If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow …

Review of 'Foreverland' on 'Goodreads'

I think I'd enjoy this more if I were a more prickly gal. Being proposed to on the wrong part of the coast of Spain is not really a problem I can imagine focusing on.

Margaret Killjoy: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow (2022, AK Press Distribution)

Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major …

Review of "We Won't Be Here Tomorrow" on 'Goodreads'

I love the same thing about these stories as I love about Margaret Killjoy's podcasts: hope in the face of plenty of reasons to despair. As an added bonus, there's wonderful love stories throughout this book, some of them new ways for this old lady to think about love.