Posts by: Kevin Thomas
HORN! REVIEWS: Song for the Unraveling of the World
Even at its most earthbound, I’d rather spend my time in Evenson’s world…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Why Buddhism Is True
Our feelings and thoughts fight it out offstage and our ego tells a story to justify the result.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Demon-Haunted World
The same factors that made us burn witches cause us to fall for fake news…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Bloody Chamber
They demand to be read aloud, the vocabulary seductively textured, tactile, like fan-vaulted chanterelles.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Evergreen Review No. 1
…a beard divides parents from son in this time capsule of the 50s avant-garde…
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HORN! REVIEWS: How to Read Donald Duck
As relevant now as it was in 1971, this book pulls the thread of the mouse…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Autonomous
The future depicted is socially grim, suggesting some things never change…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Station Eleven
It’s a masterpiece of structure, connecting our epoch inevitably to the next through artifacts and accounts…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Doll’s Alphabet
Like tinned meat years after the war, there’s something sweetly off about these stories…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Gulliver’s Travels
In a perfectly blameless Work of Fact, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver gets his perspective flipped…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Emergent Strategy
This hybrid manifesto/spell book/toolkit applies the most utopian ideas of Octavia Butler to organizing…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Brave New World
If capitalism and communism had a baby, that baby would be decanted, not born.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Barbarous Century
HORN! Reviews shares a beautifully illustrated review of The Barbarous Century by Leah Umansky.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Sing, Unburied, Sing
…in the bittersweet end, even ghosts have a hard time of it.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Heart Berries
Mailhot applies the storytelling tradition to her own rather improbable life…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Achieving Our Country
What’s needed (still) is less theory, more reform; less knowledge, more poetry; less Foucault, more Whitman.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Her Body and Other Parties
Sounds come from just outside—and then just outside that.
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HORN! REVIEWS: American War
War takes and takes, and what’s left untouched is locked up in the past, reachable only by memory.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Walden
While he doesn’t offer all the answers we want, he reminds us that we don’t see things as they are, which is key to anything.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Strangers in Their Own Land
What makes outdoorsy Cajuns tolerate oil companies poisoning their land? The short answer: white identity politics.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Letters to Memory
Yamashita evokes the time of displacement, the dust, Christian charity and Christian racism, the problematics of documenting struggle, and the importance of art, laughter, and waffles.
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