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What to Read in a Time of Trump

What to Read in a Time of Trump

Sometimes words from another age can offer solace to us in the present
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TIME for some ALTERNATIVE ESCAPIST LITERATURE, don’t you think?

TIME for some ALTERNATIVE ESCAPIST LITERATURE, don’t you think?

Do you wake up every day as I do, to a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when clouds hang oppressively low in the…
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Novels that Slap You Around

Novels that Slap You Around

Most authors want their readers to feel safe enough to turn the next page.
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Bright Air Black by David Vann

Earlier this year, I read the hugely popular Circe, named for a demi-goddess who becomes a witch. A witch who sometimes turns men into…
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Robin Yeatman
On the unique organic pleasure of reading Downdrift: An Eco-Fiction

On the unique organic pleasure of reading Downdrift: An Eco-Fiction

For those who have the willingness to let the a story flow past at its own pace, the novel offers a unique take on the state of the earth
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The Magnificent Mystery of Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt

The Magnificent Mystery of Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt

Some books leave me speechless at the end. I mean this quite literally. I’m not making a metaphorical “there are no words” comment about…
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the politics of art, II: fiction for ruthless times

the politics of art, II: fiction for ruthless times

Politically-oriented social realism, with a focus on the working poor, has not been trending for some time, and that's too bad
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