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Illustrator and writer Charles Burns is no stranger to the horror circuit. Most prominently known for his comic series Black Hole, which is now considered a cult classic, his bizarre and beautiful art...
Read ReviewMovies and Romantic Idealization
Movies are great escapism, and why shouldn't they be? An art form in its own right, rich in imagery and metaphor, the cinema offers many lessons that can be learned about ourselves and others just by ...
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Though he will go on to become President, reformer, and national hero of Mexico, in 1853 Benito Juárez has just been sent into exile by the dictator Santa Anna, along with many of his liberal ...
Read ReviewIn his novel Season of the Swamp, Yuri Herrera illuminates the year and a half Benito Juárez spent as a political exile in New Orleans, an often-overlooked period in the life of Mexico's ...
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The primary narrator of Richard Powers' latest novel, Playground, is Todd Keane, who at 57 years old has recently been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, a degenerative disease that affects thinking, ...
Read ReviewIn Richard Powers' novel Playground, best friends Todd and Rafi become obsessed with the board game Go (often capitalized in English to differentiate it from the common verb), and the pastime plays a ...
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Not long after checking into Willi Opitz's "Guesthouse for Gentlemen," young Mieczysław Wojnicz walks into the dining room and finds the proprietor's wife spread out on the table, dead. Later ...
Read ReviewOlga Tokarczuk's novel The Empusium is set in the mountain health resort of Görbersdorf (modern day Sokołowsko in Poland) in 1913. Renowned for its tuberculosis sanitorium, the town fit ...
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In Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's 2018 lightly dystopian novel, a ragtag group of young people crisscross Europe searching for anyone who speaks the lost language from a disappeared ...
Read ReviewIn Yoko Tawada's novels Scattered All Over the Earth and Suggested in the Stars, characters retell stories from the Kojiki, translated as 'Records of Ancient Matters' or 'Records of Ancient Things...
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"No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister" is a wry aphorism that appears late in the novel Shred Sisters. Over the course of about two decades, there is much heartache for the Shred ...
Read ReviewGrove Press, the publisher of Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters, formed in New York City in 1947. Four years later, it was purchased by Barnet Lee 'Barney' Rosset, Jr., who took chances by publishing ...
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The Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister
Five West Virginia siblings unearth secrets after the rupture of a supernatural bargain tying their fate to their land.
Libby Lost and Found
by Stephanie Booth
Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love.
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The Rose Arbor
by Rhys Bowen
An investigation into a girl's disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense.
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