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Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
August 27, 2024Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
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Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
August 27, 2024The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
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Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
August 26, 2024An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
August 23, 2024A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
August 22, 2024On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
August 21, 2024The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
August 18, 2024The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Oh, Those Crazy Modern Victorians: Or What the Heck Is Steampunk?
August 16, 2024While there is a sense of pride in having created something so wonderful, there is also...
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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
August 3, 2024Where do I start with Annie Proulx? Where does anyone start with Annie Proulx? Certainly not...
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Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
July 18, 2024What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...