This Adichie short (only 64 pages!) is adapted from another of her TED talks, a TEDxEuston lecture also titled “We Should All Be Feminists.” It might as well be called “Fire is Hot” or “Beyonce is a National Treasure” because OBVIOUSLY DUH we should all be feminists! The short is well-written and personal but its core message… Read More We Should All Be Feminists, Obviously
What, no rambling preface? Not today! Today all you need to know is that this book is fantastic. It’s insightful and funny and socially perceptive in a way that Jane Austen would be if Jane Austen had to grapple with race and identity in addition to class. I was inspired to read Americanah after watching Adichie’s TED talk… Read More Sixty Second Book Review: Americanah
A little required viewing in advance of my Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie doubleheader: this charming and insightful TED talk by the author about the need for variety in reading and storytelling. I discovered this talk while fact-checking a quote at work and was intrigued to learn that its ambassador citation–“stories matter”–was a vague, albeit agreeable, misrepresentation… Read More The Danger of a Single Story
Well, folks, it took me twice as long as I expected but I did it; I finished this 500-page history of the Salem witch trials–a topic it turns out I knew pretty much nothing about. Apparently multiple viewings of Hocus Pocus does not a historian make, so I blame myself for taking so long and for ultimately failing to… Read More Book Review: The Witches by Stacy Schiff
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