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Book Review: The Lucidly Chilling “Massacre on the Merrimack” — The Woman Who Killed Indians

January 11, 2016
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Jay Atkinson does a great service to the complexities of history by portraying the bloody tragedy of each side’s mutually deadly incomprehension.

Poetry Review: Two Chapbooks from Anton Yakovlev — Urban Alienation, Perfectly Pitched

January 7, 2016
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Yakovlev’s poems speak to the reader quietly, with assumed familiarity.

Book Review: “Vilna My Vilna” — A Moving Memorial to the Lodestar of Yiddish Culture

January 2, 2016
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Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.

Book Review: “The English and Their History” — A Panoramic View of the Past

December 29, 2015
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With this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.

Book Review: “The Comedians” — A Compelling History of America’s Jesters

December 28, 2015
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I loved this book, and it will hold a cherished place on my comedy book-shelf.

Book Review: Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ Memoir of Surviving the Nazi Death Camps

December 23, 2015
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In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.

Book Review: “Shout It Out Loud” — KISS and Sell

December 22, 2015
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Shout It Out Loud begins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as much more.

Book Review: “The Big Green Tent” — Lives Lived Without Trust, Memorably Conveyed

December 18, 2015
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We root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.

Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

December 12, 2015
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Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

Fuse Book Review: “The Christos Mosaic”—An Exciting Historical/Theological Thriller

December 11, 2015
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The Christos Mosaic is the rare adventure story that rewards the reader’s attention by being as diverting as it is rigorously encyclopedic.

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