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Book Review: An Uneven “Bottomland”

April 5, 2016
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Perhaps in the future Michelle Hoover will let her very real talent take her into the unknown, where narrative and myth merge.

Book Review: “Shylock Is My Name” — And the Problem Remains

April 1, 2016
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Despite this, he is vexed by how the play draws out the anti-Semitism of English audiences

Fuse Book Review: Poetry in the Rough — Jean-Paul Clébert’s Graphic Evocations of a Clandestine Paris

April 1, 2016
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An extraordinary book that should be in the hands of every lover of the French capital. And don’t we all love Paris?

Book Review: “Liberty’s First Crisis” — Oddballs to the Rescue

March 31, 2016
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Liberty’s First Crisis presents reminders that elected officials have always been capable of uncivilized behavior toward their colleagues.

Book Review: “All the Single Ladies” — Essential Reading

March 28, 2016
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All the Single Ladies is an ambitious book, packed with so many interesting people and ideas that I often wanted to hear far more about each.

Book Review: “Really the Blues” — Memorable Tales of Jazz Age Derring-do

March 26, 2016
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For all his memoir’s faults, Mezz Mezzrow’s rambunctious enthusiasm for jazz and the world it shaped and defined keeps the pages turning.

Fuse Book Review: “Beasts You’ll Never See” — Short Stories that Elicit Shrieks of Hilarity

March 25, 2016
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Nate Liederbach demotes plot and Aristotelian mechanics, replacing them with the acrobatics of a beer-loud voice.

Book Review: Is It Possible to Hate Music? And Why?

March 25, 2016
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This invigorating book formulates a caveat: beware of music..

Book Review: “Cooking With the Muse” — Poetry and Food, Transformed

March 25, 2016
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Though the culinary tastes in this book are original and often complex, the recipes themselves are breathtakingly clear and often very simple.

Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

March 18, 2016
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Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

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