Friday, April 25, 2025

Dubravka Ugresic's FOX (Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac and David Williams)

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Is Fox a novel? Is The Rings of Saturn ? What kind of a book is Landscape and Memory ? Does it matter for anyone who isn't a marketing ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Carlos Hernandez' THE ASSIMILATED CUBAN'S GUIDE TO QUANTUM SANTERIA

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I'd be damned if I was going to let my son's body pose for eternity like a movie prop in Everest's death zone so that overprivil...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

D.G. Compton's THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, aka THE UNSLEEPING EYE

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If there was one thing she hated, it was people who thought and talked of morning but their health. We are reminded of this fact about the h...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, VOLUME ONE (Tr by Barbara Haveland, Narr by Elizabeth Liang)

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I have discovered something uncanny. Or at least, it is not something that I have discovered, because I already knew it, but I have discover...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Adam Levin's THE INSTRUCTIONS

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The rest of the crowd booed. Not so much at Maholtz as the implications of the anticlimax he and I had just provided them. To see an oppress...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Support My Public Library, Won't You?

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Now is a pretty rough time for libraries. The current administration, busy attacking everything good about civil society, has not neglected ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Phillip Freedenberg's and Jeff Walton's AMERICA AND THE CULT OF THE CACTUS BOOTS: A DIAGNOSTIC

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I have a very special category on my reading tracker app which I call "On Dead Tree Despite the Pain," which, if I have actually f...