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It’s hard to imagine many of Gail Mazur’s poems emerging from anywhere else than from inside Route 128.
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Sittin’ in raises fascinating issues and its wealth of ephemera provides an amusing context in which to ponder deeper questions.
Read MoreBook Review: “Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls” — A Disappointing Look at Women, Music, and Fame
Journalist Lisa Robinson deconstructed the idea of the girl who could hang with the guys (and laugh off their casual misogyny) long before Gillian Flynn immortalized the Cool Girl in Gone Girl.
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To his credit, Kawaguchi is a canny enough craftsman to give the time tripping cliché a healthy spin.
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This is history from a distance. Harris’s characters feel more real when they’re working out the equations that will make a missile fly or fall than when they’re fleeing a double agent or a misfiring rocket.
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A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.
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Every exquisitely crafted line reflects the pull of a threatening body politic, the gravitational force of history.
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Fangirls is a funny and poignant survey of an essential coming-of-age experience.
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Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.
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Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud
“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
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