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Feature: Favorite Books of 2017

December 31, 2017
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Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.

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Book Review: Nikki Giovanni — Still Feisty After All These Years

December 31, 2017
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Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.

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Book Interview: Why Does Bob Dylan Matter?

December 30, 2017
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“I see him as the greatest artist of the English language, it happens to be in song, of the second half of the 20th century.

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Book Review: “Manhattan Beach” — Taking a Deep Dive

December 26, 2017
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Manhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.

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Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

December 26, 2017
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Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

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Poetry Review: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry — Revisited

December 14, 2017
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Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

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Poetry Review: “A Word For It” — Poetry, From out of the Dictionary

December 14, 2017
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Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.

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Book Review: “The Story of Hebrew” — A Surprise Comeback

December 14, 2017
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I cannot recall reading any book about Jewish history that contains so many “Aha!” moments.

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Book Review: “Time of Gratitude” — The Quiet Happiness of Being Unnecessary

December 12, 2017
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Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.

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Book Review: “The Golden House” — More Surreal by the Minute

December 10, 2017
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The Golden family comes by its wealth, and accrues its menacing enemies, via long and labyrinthine subplots that are hard to follow.

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