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Kevin Nolan
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Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors
Kevin Nolan reviews KARATE CHOP by Dorthe Nors today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz
Kevin Nolan reviews JOHN THE POSTHUMOUS by Jason Schwartz today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“City of Angels,” by Christa Wolf
City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud—the patently autobiographical final novel by Christa Wolf—begins in 1992 with a passport to a country that no longer exists, East Germany. After arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the narrator Christa…
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Kevin Nolan reviews Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan today in Rumpus Books.
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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: The Man and The Mythology
Artist David Wojnarowicz died twenty years ago this past Sunday, on July 22, 1992, from complications caused by AIDS. Cynthia Carr has written a new biography of Wojnarowicz called Fire in the Belly. Dwight Garner reviewed that book last week at…
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The Summer (and Autumn) of Dark Money
Foul-mouthed adman and blogger George Parker talked recently with fellow Brit Nicole Powers, in a conversation published on the Suicide Girls website, about the American Dream, the ad business, Super PACs, and what Parker calls the coming “shitstorm” of Citizen…
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The Greatest Show
In this intricately woven short story collection, The Greatest Show, Michael Downs tells the sad long story of crumbling American cities through the lens of a tragic circus fire of 1944.
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We Were Kids
In English for the first time, Nescio’s Amsterdam Stories retrace timeless youthful abandon with mature yet doleful emotional detachment.
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On Not Playing It Safe
“P.S. Reading is a commitment. You’ve got to disengage and pay attention. But when done right, you enter a whole ’nother world. Kind of like a great record, at least those of yore which were not background but doors to…
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Tonino Guerra
“My poems were an essence of images. They had the cinema inside them before I started working for it.” A quote from Tonino Guerra, in a New York Times obituary about an extraordinary life. Guerra, the prolific screenwriter, poet, novelist…
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Acts of Imagination
It is mildly surprising that the New York Times didn’t see John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essay “My Debt to Ireland” as fit to print in its Sunday magazine on a date closer to March 17, and, actually, it’s sort of a…
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E.L. Doctorow on John Leonard
“There was something of a religious about John Leonard, however much of a principled skeptic he may have been. With his pale complexion, his round eyeglasses, there was a translucence to him such as is given to the spiritually employed.…