In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
The Matchmakers Celebrate Pride Month
June is Pride Month, and the Matchmakers team celebrates with a special reading list featuring recent LGBTQIA+ titles: The Secret to Superhuman...
The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon
Welcome to our post by guest blogger Kate Atherton! The mysterious cover art, depicting the protagonist Nao with a washing machine head and the end...
Outlawed in the Dystopian Wild West
If you're looking for a queer western set in a dystopian wild west, look no further! Anna North's Outlawed (ebook) has got you covered. Seventeen...
Take a Walk With Lillian Boxfish
Do you want to read more about New York City in the hectic, glittering era of Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley? Then you can't do better than...
Stories of Your Life: Short Stories by Ted Chiang
I recently finished Ted Chiang's sci-fi short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others, an engaging, smart, and varied set of stories that...
Springtime Staff Picks from Your Library!
Springtime is the best season for reading... well, every season is the best season for reading! Here are some books the Matchmakers team enjoyed...
The Sheep Man Will Bring You Doughnuts: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
The cover resembles an old catalog card found in the back of a library book. You open it by pulling the lower half down and the top part up. I feel...
Noble Staff Book Club Picks
Beginning last fall, some of the Noble reference staff have been getting together for a staff book club each month. It's been really fun getting to...
Yet Another Pride and Prejudice Spin-off!
My, my... there really can never be too many spin-offs of Jane Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, can there? But this one is so good...
The 1619 Project and Its Detractors
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's...
Beware of Scrabble Playing Argentines in Blimps
A short history lesson: poker began to be televised in the late 1990s. What was once a card game played in casinos and at family card tables was now...
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