Geoffrey Bateman
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Reader pick: “Hunger,” by Roxane Gay is devastating
There is something both devastating and cautiously transformative in the memoir “Hunger,” by Roxane Gay, and I write these words, I want to tread carefully, because there is such vulnerability...

Reader’s pick: “There, There” by Tommy Orange
This is an intricate and intense first novel that tells the stories of 12 connected (although also sometimes disconnected) characters, all of whom fit in some way with Orange’s imagining...

Reader pick: “Circe,” by Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller’s second novel is a retelling, in part, of “The Odyssey” from Circe’s perspective.

Civil unions in Colorado: just one step closer …
Civil unions in Colorado: just one step closer ...

“Widows” a bewitching look into desperate lives
"Widows" a bewitching look into desperate lives

Familial agony, ecstasy
Familial agony, ecstasy