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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.
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The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
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Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.
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Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.
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These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.
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“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
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The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues