Stories By Garan Holcombe
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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
December 2, 2023The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
November 30, 2023He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
November 17, 2023His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
November 17, 2023‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
November 13, 2023Hobbie 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
November 10, 2023There 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
November 9, 2023‘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
November 5, 2023One 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
November 4, 2023The 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
November 3, 2023The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
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