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Kari Percival’s greatest thrill? Reading How to Say Hello to a Worm aloud to kids whose faces “light up” as she turns the pages.
Touring to support their 20th anniversary CD, 20 Printemps, Le Vent du Nord delivered a master class in musicianship.
The Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.
Here’s this week’s poem, “Introduction to Fractals or How They Last”.
There are so many ways to celebrate the arrival of spring with kids. You can take a walk in the rain, look for flowers or grass sprouting in sidewalk cracks, or plant a garden. After your adventures, you can settle down and read these books.
Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?
All in all, This Bird Has Flown is light but not brainless, and engagingly adorable. It’s a perfect beach read for the New Wave set.
What, we are led to wonder, is the project of minimalism today?
Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
The problem with The Ghost at the Feast is that the story it tells undermines its final argument. If America blundered by staying at home during the interwar period, it is blundering even more now by going relentlessly abroad.
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