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Book Review: When the Face Disappears, the Painting Speaks — Ewa Juszkiewicz

March 22, 2026
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Today, Ewa Juszkiewicz stands among the most incisive voices in contemporary art. Each work redefines how women may emerge in painting, charting new territories of meaning.

Book Review: “The Cat’s Eye Charm” — Cozy, Witchy, and Wonderful

March 21, 2026
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Clea Simon’s latest is an easy-going entertainment that will be a fine introduction to those who are only now discovering the author’s uniquely enchanting brand of feline genre fiction.

Poetry Review: Matt Bialer’s “Time Is, Was, Will Be” — Love and Grief in an Eternal Present

March 21, 2026
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Matt Bialer’s long poem doesn’t see time as a clock running to zero, but as an infinite love poem.

Book Review: Will Self’s Moral Reckoning — Satire for a Decadent Age

March 20, 2026
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As is the case with effective satirists, Will Self is nothing if not provocative.

Book Review: The Difficult Genius of Stephen Sondheim – Revisited

March 18, 2026
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Daniel Okrent’s “Art Isn’t Easy” is an engaging if familiar introduction to one of theater’s most complex figures – though seasoned Stephen Sondheim devotees may find themselves wanting more.

Book Review: “Of Loss and Lavender” — Sinan Antoon on Exile and Forgetting

March 16, 2026
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I cannot recall reading a more poignant and persuasive description of the inexorable descent of Alzheimer’s disease, certainly not from inside the sufferer’s mind.

Book Review: Toxic Completism — Rescuing Jazz from the Algorithm in “Listening to Prestige”

March 15, 2026
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“Listening to Prestige” can be read as a kind of post-literate anti-Spotify. And, lo and behold, it’s true jazz history.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Pair of Notable Women

March 12, 2026
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Two new biographies spotlight women whose remarkable achievements have enriched our understanding of our world.

Book Review: Unquiet Graves and Uneasy Truths in “Centroeuropa”

March 12, 2026
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An engaging and entertaining mystery, told in an evocative period setting, that deconstructs narrative conventions, analyzes the artifice of identity, and critiques the capitalist patriarchal system.

Book Review: Dead but Dealing — Alain Mabanckou’s Pointe-Noire Necropolis

March 11, 2026
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“Dealing With the Dead” achieves something else no outsider, however gifted or knowledgeable, could pull off: showing how magic, superstition, religious faith and credulity (as in, a hunger to believe) play into the everyday lives of most Pointe-Noireans.

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