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...
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 “Crush” by Richard Siken.
“Crush” is a collection of poetry written by American poet Richard Siken and is the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The book...
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 “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams.
Sometimes life throws a curveball your way and you just have to accept that you can do nothing about it. Douglas Adams’...
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 “literally show me a healthy person” by Darcie Wilder.
Darcie Wilder’s “literally show me a healthy person” is a novel. Sort of. Purportedly. It’s a book whose author’s stream of consciousness...
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 the manga, “Goodnight Punpun Vol. 1” by Inio Asano.
The stigma associated with graphic novels, including Japanese manga, as a form of literature can be attributed to the medium’s inclusion of...
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 “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance of Death” by Kurt Vonnegut.
Humankind has an affinity for war which, as depressing and disappointing as it may be, we must all learn...