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Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas was born in Southern California and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in NOON, LA Review of Books, and Barrelhouse magazine and on OccupyWriters.com. His first book, a collection of the first three years of these strips, is available from OR Books. Sometimes he overshares on Twitter.

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Kevin Thomas

Jun 29, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Autonomous

The future depicted is socially grim, suggesting some things never change…
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Kevin Thomas

Jun 1, 2018

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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Kevin Thomas

May 11, 2018

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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Kevin Thomas

Apr 27, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Gulliver’s Travels

In a perfectly blameless Work of Fact, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver gets his perspective flipped…
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Kevin Thomas

Apr 6, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Emergent Strategy

This hybrid manifesto/spell book/toolkit applies the most utopian ideas of Octavia Butler to organizing…
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Kevin Thomas

Mar 23, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Brave New World

If capitalism and communism had a baby, that baby would be decanted, not born.
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Kevin Thomas

Mar 9, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: The Barbarous Century

HORN! Reviews shares a beautifully illustrated review of The Barbarous Century by Leah Umansky.
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Kevin Thomas

Feb 16, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Sing, Unburied, Sing

…in the bittersweet end, even ghosts have a hard time of it.
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Kevin Thomas

Feb 2, 2018

HORN! REVIEWS: Heart Berries

Mailhot applies the storytelling tradition to her own rather improbable life…
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Kevin Thomas

Jan 19, 2018

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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Kevin Thomas

Dec 29, 2017

HORN! REVIEWS: Empty Set

The pure pleasure of this book is being our heroine Vero’s head…
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Kevin Thomas

Dec 15, 2017

HORN! Reviews: Sapiens

The leitmotif is people working more for less, and to what end?