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Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor

January 21, 2020
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What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.

Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash

January 21, 2020
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We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.

Book Review: “Were We Awake” — Speculating in the Dark

January 20, 2020
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L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.

Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time

January 12, 2020
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Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.

Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”

January 10, 2020
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José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.

Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream

January 6, 2020
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Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.

Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.

January 5, 2020
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If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”

Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”

January 3, 2020
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It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.

Book Review: “For Kids of All Ages” — The Love of Cinema Burns Bright!

December 27, 2019
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Peter Keough has edited a useful, insightful, and delightful new collection of short essays that explore films that appeal to adults who seek childlike glee or awe at the movies.

Book Review: A Biography of John Berger — A Seminal Artist and Thinker

December 26, 2019
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If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.

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