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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
Roberta Silman’s engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.
Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.
“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”
So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.
Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
We built this form of democracy and now we must stand up to what it’s become and say “I don’t consent to this.”
Book Commentary: Portnoy’s Revenge
There’s something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth’s fiction.
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