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Three Poems by Gary Soto
Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.
Flushing the Script: Madness, Medication, and Patriarchy in The Housemaid
A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet reimagines Shakespeare’s family life to explore grief, plague, and the endurance of love.
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life by Chris Palmer
A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.
When Artificial Intelligence Talks but Can’t Touch: Marjorie Prime
As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.
Oedipus–Adapted for the Stage by Robert Icke
Icke’s Oedipus reimagines plague, politics, and identity, highlighting trauma, narrative humility, chronotopes, and ethical listening.
Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history
A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
Playground by Richard Powers
A dazzling novel where ocean mysteries, human bonds, and uncertain AI futures intertwine with beauty and suspense.
Mandatory Evacuation Zone by Felice Aull
This collection traces memory, language, grief, and healing through sixty-three finely crafted poems that illuminate loss and resilience.
Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror: A Metaphor
Shannon Vallor uses the metaphor of a mirror to reveal how AI reflects and distorts our shared humanity.
Speak by Louisa Hall
A haunting, multi-voiced novel exploring artificial intelligence, empathy, and what it truly means to be human.
Stuck By Heidi J. Larson
Heidi J. Larson explores the cultural, moral, and social roots of vaccine hesitancy before the Covid pandemic.



















