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David Mehegan

Book Review: “Pyre” — A Powerful Romeo & Juliet Fable That Centers on Caste

The Tamil version of Pyre, under the title, Pukkuli, was dedicated to a young man murdered in his community for making an inter-caste marriage.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: David Mehegan, Grove Atlantic/Black Cat Books, Perumal Murugan, Pyre, Tamil

Book Review: “Hot Maroc” — A Moroccan Walter Mitty as Internet Troll

Hot Maroc is more of a three-ring circus than a drama, with a high-wire act at one end, tigers and elephants at the other, and scurrying clowns in the middle.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander E. Elinson, David Mehegan, Hot Maroc, Syracuse University Press, Yassin Adnan

Book Review: Mario Vargas Llosa’s “Harsh Times” — A Menagerie of Monsters Great and Petty

Above and beyond Mario Vargas Llosa’s political outlook, his latest novel proves that he remains at heart a master storyteller.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: David Mehegan, Guatemala, Harsh Times, Mario Vargas Llosa

Book Review: “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” — Masterpiece or Mess?

Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Antonio Muñoz Molina, David Mehegan, Farrar Straus and Giroux, To Walk Alone in the Crowd

Book Review: “Refugee: A Memoir” — A Powerful Story of the Plight of Millions

Refugee: A Memoir was not written to entertain but to outrage and activate.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Africa, Charlotte Collins., David Mehegan, Emmanuel Mbolela, immigrants, Refugee: A Memoir

Book Review: “The Science of Abolition” — See No Evil

Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: David Mehegan, Eric Herschthal, How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress, Slavery, The Science of Abolition

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