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Book Review: “The Hunger Saint” — Courage in a World of Pain

April 14, 2017
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Olivia Kate Cerrone tells this story in raw, blunt terms, in a naturalistic mode worthy of Zola.

Book Feature: The Decibel Diaries — A Journey Through Rock in 50 Concerts

April 8, 2017
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A journal that is part travelogue, part music history, and part meditation on the evolution of our culture through the often-bloodshot eyes of one man.

Book Review: Roxane Gay — A Writer of Unusual Sensibility

April 4, 2017
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Roxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.

Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

March 30, 2017
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A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

Book Review: “With Ballet in My Soul” — The Vicissitudes of an Impresario

March 24, 2017
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Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.

Book Review: The “Inexhaustibility” of Angela Carter

March 20, 2017
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May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.

Book Review: Nuff Said? — “What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing”

March 20, 2017
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 Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.

Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

February 28, 2017
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The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

Book Review: “Nicotine” — A Fresh Take on Addiction

February 27, 2017
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A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.

Book Review: “The Shipwrecked Mind” — Leaving the Carnage Behind

February 23, 2017
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Mark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.

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