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Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.
Read MoreHilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.
Read MoreRichard Gessner’s head is a cavern piled high with wonders—original images, fresh metaphors, mind-stretching scenarios, and alternate world orders.
Read MoreDe Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.
Read MoreSet in Boston’s rock scene during the ’80s, the mystery World Enough serves up plenty of compelling entertainment.
Read MoreComparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.
Read MorePoet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
Read MoreThe biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Read MoreOscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
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Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book
Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.
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