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In 2022, Sally Rooney delivered a lecture that later ran in The Paris Review, in which she stated that Ulysses could be placed in the literary tradition of Jane Austen, adding that her reading of ...
Read ReviewSally Rooney Reads from Intermezzo in Dublin
On Saturday, September 21, 2024, more than 500 people gathered at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, located a few meters from St. Stephen's Green, a setting in Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo. ...
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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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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 Story Collector
by Evie Woods
From the international bestselling author of
The Lost Bookshop!
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas--a place ...
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