Thinking Again
Monday, May 6, 2024
Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
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The stories of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are some of the most gorgeous fantastic tales I’ve ever read. They’re full of surprise and grotesqu...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The Blizzard by Vladamir Sorokin
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In the novel The Blizzard (2010, English translation 2015) by Vladamir Sorokin, events take place in dangerous and potentially deadly col...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Why I Write The Kinds of Book Reviews I Write or, What Happened To Book Reviews Of Contemporary Literature?
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In my writing lifetime, I’ve published probably maybe 100, maybe 200 reviews of contemporary literature of various lengths and in different ...
Friday, March 15, 2024
Honey Mine (Collected Stories) by Camille Roy
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There’s a lot of brilliant writing in this book. Camille Roy has a remarkable style: crisp, vivid, energetic. Although the subtitle of Hon...
Monday, February 12, 2024
The NIght Before The Day On Which, by Jean Day
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This is the first book of hers in which Jean Day’s work finally “kicked in” for me at a higher level of connection and understanding. Her ...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Doppelgänger by Daša Drndić
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I’m not opposed to “depressing” books. When people complain that a book is depressing, I usually like to say that one of the key things ab...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Terence Winch: Seeing-Eye Boy and Celtic Thunder: Live in Concert 1978-2018
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While there are certainly numerous artists who dabble in an art form other than their main one, having a long-run history of excellence in...
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