SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES by Elizabeth Winkler

For centuries, Christianity had exerted a pacifying influence on the population, encouraging values of meekness and self-sacrifice, and unifying all classes, from the richest congregant to the pious peasant, under a single ideology.

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SAHA by Cho Nam-joo, translated by Jamie Chang

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Town, a city-state that is “not quite company or country,” enforces a multi-tiered class system. Laboring under it are the citizenship-less, referred to by the name of the decrepit apartment complex where they live. The Saha Estates are where authorities turn when a doctor is murdered, and where Jin-kyung decides to fight back, for her missing brother, her neighbors and herself.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/13/books/new-paperbacks-nam-joo.html

LAND OF MILK AND HONEY by C Pam Zhang

<<There’s an ornateness to this prose that is missing from much contemporary fiction, which is arguably obsessed with holding the attention of a “typical” reader, one often imagined to have a short attention span and an interest only in the progression of plot.>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/books/review/c-pam-zhang-land-of-milk-and-honey.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/176022/chef-end-world-c-pam-zhang-land-milk-honey

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/05/land-of-milk-and-honey-by-c-pam-zhang-review-an-intriguing-tale-of-post-apocalyptic-cuisine