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Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
September 17, 2021Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...
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Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
September 14, 2021Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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Book Review: Odditorium: Stories
September 8, 2021While the collection of eight stories has its highs and lows, Pritchard’s newest book offers an...
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Book Review: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
August 31, 2021Obsessed with the idea of apocalypse, the child whose world is on the verge of unwinding...
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Book Review: The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
August 23, 2021In 2008 Roberto Bolaño’s 900-page epic 2666 was published. Appearing out of relative obscurity, Bolaño’s novel...
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Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
August 21, 2021So for those who may have been a little lost amidst the religious politics of The...
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Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
August 21, 2021Magic is all around us, if only we’d pay attention more—if only we’d dream. Maybe then...
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Book Review: The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
August 17, 2021The “cat’s table” is the place where the least important passengers on the ship are seated...
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Book Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
August 8, 2021Leonard’s corrosive bipolar depression leads him to self-destruct as his brilliant mind turns against him. Hospitalized...
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Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
August 3, 2021After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...