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The Map and the Territory

  • James Langlois
  • April 3, 2012
The latest novel from infant terrible Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory sits in his oeuvre as a less-cruel, poignant romp through familiar themes.
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The Vanishers

  • Leland Cheuk
  • April 2, 2012
Heidi Julavits’ latest novel The Vanishers is provocative and full of hefty, even academic ideas—at its best, a nouveau feminist manifesto.
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The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry

  • Barbara Berman
  • March 31, 2012
It is clear from Dove’s introduction to the anthology, and from her selections, that she just wanted an engaging, informative, high -quality collection. She succeeded.
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An Inverted World of Trees and Trembling Sky

  • Lisa Wells
  • March 30, 2012
At its best, After the Point of No Return gives us just what we hope to find: poems that wrestle with mortality, retrace the steps of a life, and take…
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What We Become

  • Ana Grouverman
  • March 29, 2012
Péter Nádas’s Parallel Stories illustrates the haphazard, psychological violence of a century of ideology, disruption, and the search for the meaning of personal freedom.
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Fictional Pointillism

  • Nina Schuyler
  • March 29, 2012
Tupelo Hassman’s debut Girlchild is an emotionally rich and complex picture of a smart girl brutalized and circumscribed by circumstances.
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Tell Me She Is Happy With Her Life

  • Eric Smith
  • March 28, 2012
In this collection, Chaple successfully fuses the personal with the spatial. As a result, an awareness of the way poems, by airing out the rooms of stanzas, can provide at…
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A Children’s Waltz

  • Catherine Tung
  • March 27, 2012
A collaboration between novelist Jessica Anthony and designer Rodrigo Corral yields a novel that makes our hearts move faster than our brains.
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Weird Novels by Lady Novelists

  • NancyKay Shapiro
  • March 26, 2012
In her novel Angel, Elizabeth Taylor turns the exploration of the relationship of the artist to her imagination, her drive, her self-opinion, her ego, on its ear.
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Drinking a Glass of Light

  • Joey Connelly
  • March 23, 2012
The emotional theme of the volume, the nostalgia and death that is announced in the book’s title and reaffirmed in almost every poem to some extent, is what I know…
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Monstress

  • Michael Hingston
  • March 22, 2012
Lysley Tenorio’s linked short story collection, Monstress, organically ties together stories of the misfits and outcasts of both the Philippines and Southern California.
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Wind and Rain Make No Difference

  • T Fleischmann
  • March 21, 2012
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom could fit neatly into any number of contemporary-sounding categories: hybrid text, art book, lyric essay, etc. It is a book that relies on interdependence…
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