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Manhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.
Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.
Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.
I cannot recall reading any book about Jewish history that contains so many “Aha!” moments.
Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.
The Golden family comes by its wealth, and accrues its menacing enemies, via long and labyrinthine subplots that are hard to follow.
Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.
Hilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.
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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