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Carole V. Bell

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🇯🇲Critic & researcher. UNC J-School PhD. Books, TV, Film & Democracy. Words: @NPRBooks @NYTimes @LATimes @WashingtonPost @BostonGlobe @Indiewire @TheAtlantic
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Review | 'Swift River,' a sparkling debut about a young girl you'll never forget

Review | 'Swift River,' a sparkling debut about a young girl you'll never forget

In Essie Chambers's novel, Diamond Newberry learns about her family's history seven years after her father di…

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Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

Sinister and visually stunning, the new Netflix series Ripley reminds us why Patricia Highsmith's book The Ta…

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Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts Is a Timeless Depiction of Motherhood and Adolescence

Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts Is a Timeless Depiction of Motherhood and Adolescence

The “Little Fires Everywhere” author’s latest is a galvanic and urgent novel of social and familial upheaval.

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Crime Fiction Goes Global and Diverse, as These 20 Books by Women Writers Show

Crime Fiction Goes Global and Diverse, as These 20 Books by Women Writers Show

Though popular, crime fiction has a somewhat checkered reputation: On-screen or on the page, pro-police propa…

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So You're Rivals? And You're Fake-Dating? Classic.

So You're Rivals? And You're Fake-Dating? Classic.

In her debut romance novel, "Honey and Spice," Bolu Babalola plays with familiar literary romance tropes to e…

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Percival Everett's Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

Percival Everett's Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

At a certain point, dark social satire bleeds into horror. That can be powerful, but it can also very easily …

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A New Novel Gives Wings - and a Megaphone - to a Complex Woman

A New Novel Gives Wings - and a Megaphone - to a Complex Woman

ISLAND QUEEN By Vanessa Riley Vanessa Riley was intrigued when she encountered the figure of Miss Lambe in Ja…

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Two Fathers Risk It All To Avenge Their Murdered Sons In This New Thriller

Two Fathers Risk It All To Avenge Their Murdered Sons In This New Thriller

Reading Razorblade Tears is a visceral full-body experience, a sharp jolt to the heart, and a treat for the s…

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In Beverly Jenkins's Romance Novels, Black History Is Front and Center

In Beverly Jenkins's Romance Novels, Black History Is Front and Center

Review of WILD RAIN By Beverly Jenkins In the time of plague, nothing soothes like a love story, as the bloc…

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Senate GOP Still Hasn't Renewed the Violence Against Women Act. It's Been 20 Months.

Senate GOP Still Hasn't Renewed the Violence Against Women Act. It's Been 20 Months.

Despite the House of Representatives passing hundreds of bills-many of them with bipartisan support-the GOP-l…

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Book Review - The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

Book Review - The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

Robert Jones Jr.'s remarkable first novel, The Prophets, accomplishes the exceptional literary feat of being …

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BEYOND 2020: THE DEEPER STORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE TRUMP ERA

BEYOND 2020: THE DEEPER STORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE TRUMP ERA

Based on a plethora of data on attitudes, demographics, and vote choice, political scientists John Sides, Mic…

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Book Review - If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Book Review - If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon

One of romance's brightest stars, Rebekah Weatherspoon is known for her sweet and steamy stories. With If the…

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Book Review - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Book Review - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Indie publishing favorite Olivia Dade's Avon debut, Spoiler Alert, is a funny and poignant triumph that defie…

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Casting spells upon your shelves

Casting spells upon your shelves

Wild and wicked women-long may we praise them. Long may we be them. Three magical tales mine the rebellion an…

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Cowboy Charming: PW Talks with Rebekah Weatherspoon

Cowboy Charming: PW Talks with Rebekah Weatherspoon

With If the Boot Fits (Dafina, Nov.), Weatherspoon delivers a Black Cinderella romance between struggling scr…

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Book Review - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

Book Review - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

A squeaky-clean honors student gets arrested for selling drugs. A gregarious old man vanishes in the middle o…

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Author Interview - Alyssa Cole, author of When No One Is Watching

Author Interview - Alyssa Cole, author of When No One Is Watching

Alyssa Cole's work has always had two common threads: a social conscience and a central love story. That comb…

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Love in the public eye

Love in the public eye

The celebrity or public figure love interest has long been a popular staple of the romance genre. What's nice…

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Black Romance Novels Matter Too

Black Romance Novels Matter Too

With the notable exception of Shondaland, even the most acclaimed, topical and popular romance novels by blac…

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