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Lucas Spiro

Book Review: “Savage Kiss” — Children’s Criminal Crusade

Maybe the greatest value of Saviano’s narratives is that they rebuke the complicity of silence; they are acts of dissent that refuse to kowtow to the oppressive omertà.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Lucas Spiro, Roberto Saviano, Savage Kiss

Book Review: Ken Bruen’s “A Galway Epiphany” — A Vision of Exhaustion

Jack Taylor’s awareness of his own depleted condition is part of A Galway Epiphany’s Beckett-infused drama.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Galway Epiphany, Jack Taylor, Ken Bruen, Lucas Spiro

Short Fuse Podcast #30 — Matt & Lucas, Abridged

What happens when the illusive Zoom gods don’t cooperate — a rescue mission.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Lucas Spiro, Matt Hanson

Book Review: “Murder and the Movies” — So Cinematic, the Spectacle of Death

Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Thomson, Lucas Spiro, Murder and the Movies

Book Review: “Lake of Urine: A Love Story” — Breaking Established Reality

It’s hard to critique a novel that flies under such a resplendent banner, a wholesale rejection of the dead and decaying world of trends and war and meaninglessness.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Guillermo Stitch, Lake of Urine, Lucas Spiro, Sagging Meniscus Press

Book Review: “The Fallen” — Probing Cuban Paralysis

The Fallen artfully diagnoses the spiritual and material maladies of contemporary Cuban life through the lens of a single family, a household threatened by decay, exterior and interior.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Cuba, Graywolf Press, Lucas Spiro, The Fallen

Book Review: “The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana” — A Caribbean Hamlet

Told from the perspective of the Global South, this novel enthralls as it explores the urgent economic and cultural contradictions of post-colonialism, globalization, class, and alienation.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Lucas Spiro, Maryse Condé

Book Review: “Like Flies from Afar” — A Very Twisted Odyssey

This is hard-hitting neo-noir parable whose dark humor delights as it strikes at the corrupt heart of business as usual in Argentina.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adrian Nathan West, Farrar Straus & Giroux, K. Ferrari, Like Flies, Like Flies From Afar, Lucas Spiro

Television Review: “Tiger King” — King of the American Jungle

What’s so appealing about Tiger King? Perhaps it is that the lurid goings-on are so distinctively American.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Carole Baskin., Joe Exotic, Joseph Schreibvogel, Lucas Spiro, Rick Kirkham, Tiger King

Book Review: “Four Futures” — Surprisingly Relevant ‘Social Science Fiction’

Peter Frase envisions how our current bedeviling social contradictions and economic abuses may play out in the future.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Four Futures, Lucas Spiro, Peter Frase, Verso Press

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