Posts by: Kevin Thomas
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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HORN! REVIEWS: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
[T]hese stories skewer clergy and gentry, delight in appetites, and dare to ask, an even answer, “Why am I human?”
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HORN! REVIEWS: Parable of the Sower
The dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Gift
A beautifully illustrated review of Barbara Browning’s The Gift from HORN! Reviews.
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HORN! Reviews: The War on Science
Scientists and laypeople need to come together to save our democracy, if not our planet.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Mrs Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway, whose art form is social life, steps outside on a June day…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Man Without a Face
The ‘how’ of this story is fascinating, but the ‘what’ is too sad to think about: the methodical dismantling of Russian democracy.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Nova
As the musician says to the novelist, “I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me.”
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Plot Against America
It’s as if Roth, in 2004, had inhaled a Delphic vapor to bring us this vision of an alternate then so eerily like our now.
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HORN! Reviews: Fahrenheit 451
Here’s a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad…
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