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Iana Boukova’s novel finds enchantment in digression, folklore, and the sensuous music of language.
A lawyer-poet’s arguments against war, racism, plutocracy, and despair are sharpened by moments of sensual attention and stubborn devotion.
By Dan Kennedy Social change and corporate greed are destroying newspapers in small-town America. What happens to the people left behind? Deserted: Life Without Local News in Rural America by Nick Mathews. University of Illinois Press, 168 pages, $110 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Local news is in crisis everywhere, but the challenge is more daunting in…
In this monumental, politically charged epic, the author turns Cold War imperialism, government secrecy, and the limits of human understanding into a haunting story of weaponized ghosts.
Christopher Seufert’s “Memento Gorey” offers an intimate, cluttered, sometimes illuminating portrait of the artist’s final years, but its unedited conversations rarely penetrate the mystery at their center.
A new edition of “The Man with Night Sweats” brings the poet’s formal restraint, domestic intimacy, and unsparing attention to individual loss into sharper focus.
A new annotated translation of “Past & Thoughts” restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to American readers.
Robert Dattoli’s “Boomer Madness” recounts a picaresque journey through sex, drugs, work, protest, and the cultural upheavals of postwar America—but its reflections on the generation often prove less compelling than its adventures.
Two lively picture books invite children to discover the creativity, collaboration, and wonder behind the books they love.
By Ed Meek Joshua Frank offers an incisive account of the environmental and human costs of “green” development — even if his sweeping skepticism leaves readers wondering what practical climate action should look like. Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future by Joshua Frank. Haymarket…
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