With February being Black History Month, it’s important to reflect on and appreciate the rich cultural history that exists within creative writing and literature as a result of Black folk’s contributions. This week, the excitement of Valentine’s Day surges in with candy, roses and hearts all around. After that’s over, some might be left feeling a bit empty or...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation for this column. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
“Americanah” is an impactful story written by award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Centered around two lovers navigating through the world, the storyline follows them...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation whenever possible. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “God: A Human History” by Reza Aslan.
Renowned scholar of religions, former host of CNN’s “Believer” and UCR Professor of Creative Writing Reza Aslan’s newest work explores a perennially overlooked aspect...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng.
In her debut fictional novel “Everything I Never Told You,” Celeste Ng writes a hauntingly beautiful tale about a Chinese-American family which has...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World’s Violent Highlands” by Judith Maltoff.
Written by acclaimed journalist and conflict reporting professor at Columbia University Judith Matloff, “No Friends but the...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami.
Bearing the name of The Beatles’ track of the same name, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” is a 1987 coming-of-age novel about love and death...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Ham on Rye” by Charles Bukowski.
Written by novelist, poet and short story writer Henry Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” centers around the early stages of his life, from his childhood...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Against Innocence” by Jackie Wang.
Jackie Wang’s essay, “Against Innocence,” is a critical interrogation of the uses of innocence.
Pulling from an array of academic disciplines like Black studies as well as...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick.
Written by award-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times Seoul bureau chief Barbara Demick, “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce” by Morgan Parker.
Morgan Parker proposes a question doubling as affirmation for the possibilities of more beautiful things than Beyonce in her attentively titled...