Sunday, November 10, 2024

Bartle Bull's LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS: A 5,000 YEAR HISTORY OF IRAQ

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My home only celebrated its centennial as a U.S. state when I was 20 years old, so it's quite a thing to contemplate a land with over 5,...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Nick Estes' OUR HISTORY IS THE FUTURE: STANDING ROCK VERSUS THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE, AND THE LONG TRADITION OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE

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"In a very real sense, the founding of the United States was a declaration of war against indigenous peoples." From no...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Virginie Despentes' DEAR DICKHEAD (Tr Frank Wynn)

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Epistolary novels have never been my favorite, but when its author is someone like Virginie Fucking Despentes I'm going to drop everythi...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Emmanuel Carrere's V13: CHRONICLE OF A TRIAL (Tr John Lambert)

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I was emotionally unprepared for what awaited me within Emanuel Carrere's V13: Chronicle of a Trial. I imagine few readers are prepared...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Jeff Vandermeer's ABSOLUTION

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Did I know, when I got my ARC of Absolution , Jeff Vandermeer's coda/prequel to his Area X trilogy , that I was about to add a new deity...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS

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Was Monday Night Rehabilitation your favorite scene of Idiocracy but you wish it was not only serious but a searing indictment of the Unit...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Tim Powers' MY BROTHER'S KEEPER

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Anglican Church," he muttered. "You nearly never go to church anyway -- your church is the moors, your priest is your dog, your Go...