Stories By Garan Holcombe
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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
July 10, 2022The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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Medicine
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
July 9, 2022He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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Art
30,000 Years of Art
June 26, 2022‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Australia
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 25, 2022His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
June 21, 2022Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
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Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
June 18, 2022There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
June 18, 2022‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
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Crime Fiction
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
June 14, 2022One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
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Fiction Reviews
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
June 13, 2022The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
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Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
June 13, 2022The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...