Rowan Beaird

Aug 30, 2024 | chireviewofbooks.com | Rowan Beaird

It started with a photograph. Ruthvika Rao has always had a habit of combing through old newspapers, and one day, she came across a striking image in an edition of the New York Times from the 1970s. “At first, I didn’t even know what I was looking at,” she shared, but slowly, the scene took shape: a row of severed heads in a field in rural India. What had led to this brutal act? What had come after?

Jul 15, 2024 | chireviewofbooks.com | Rowan Beaird

In the spring of 2020, music venues around the world went dark, and Nashville—a city where live music greets you in the airport—felt particularly quiet to Liz Riggs. She’d just submitted her MFA thesis and was thinking back to when she first moved to the city a decade before, and a girl she’d once seen stamping hands at a local venue. To a time that felt even more distant in the eerie silence of the pandemic; a sardine-tight audience, a thumping bass.

Apr 13, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Rowan Beaird |Shawn Hoo

The Divorcees By Rowan BeairdFiction/Manilla Press/Paperback/256 pages/$25.77/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3W0Z2XM)4 stars In post-Great Depression United States, when divorces were taboo and most states had lengthy procedures for marital break-up, Nevada was one exception where six weeks spent in a divorce ranch could guarantee a new start for women.

Mar 22, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Tea Obreht |Jennifer Ryan |Rowan Beaird |Colin Barrett

This week, we review Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls, which considers "the nesting-doll lives of three generations" of Chinese American women and "brings into clear focus the ever-shifting complexities of mother-daughter relationships"; as well as Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, who "skillfully sifts through the past, present, and the unraveling future, drawing from the different branches of her identity as a punk, queer Indigenous woman." Plus, The First State of...

Mar 19, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Rowan Beaird

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