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Lit Pick of the Week

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 Unrest-Cure and Other Stories” by Saki and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Ghoulish 19th century literature inevitably evokes the eerie literary experiments of writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen...
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 “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 “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster In 1960, architect Norton Juster received a grant to write a children’s book based on cities and buildings, but instead wrote something entirely different...
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 “Hold Still” by Sally Mann. Sally Mann’s memoir, “Hold Still,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016, is a curious read. Mann became an iconic photographer in...
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 Chaos of Longing” by K.Y. Robinson. While the previous few “Lit” picks have consisted of books which held some political resonance, this week’s choice, K.Y. Robinson’s “The Chaos of Longing,”...
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 “Augustus” by John Williams. John Williams has had a bright resurgence this past year, with the reissuance of three of his finest novels by the New York Review of Books. His...
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 “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 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...