Reviews
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Driving the Drive We Drive Five Times a Week
Bruce Machart’s Men in the Making tells sad, poignant stories in impeccable prose.
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If Demolition is an End…Then What?
In his new book Rich People Things, Chris Lehmann identifies and deconstruct the signifiers of social class in America.
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The Rats Are Not Doing Well
Fleming’s writing is deeply rooted in the narrative, myth-forming traditions of prose as well as the atmospheric aspirations of poetry.
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The Singing Caryatids of Modern Moscow
Victor Pelevin’s new novella, Hall of the Singing Caryatids, satirizes contemporary capitalism in a smart and fun critique of what we do for money and with money.
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The Memory of a Coin
Alliterative poems dually titled with different years provide each of the book’s two parts with bones to an otherwise fleshless narrative. Placed upon the page like fossils for an extinct skeleton, the poems succeed in bearing their own significant weight.
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In Defense of Translation
Professor and translator, David Bellos celebrates the enlightening task of translation in his new book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.
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Did You Hear about Bradley?
Hal Niedzviecki’s new collection, Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened, asks us what is essential to narrative.
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Man, Wall, Sea
Working with his father, Joshua Edwards has also created an intriguingly masculine book. The collection presents father and son’s perspectives on an American landscape molded and scarred by men.
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From Helplessness to Competence
Lily Tuck’s engaging new novel I Married You For Happiness explores a 40-year-plus marriage from the vantage of one night.
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The Slow Urgency of Drowning
Stacie Leatherman weaves lush metaphors and imagery that drifts and flakes, and is riddled with earthly abundance, colors, and dust. Her writing is sensory, and her voice and syntax trick you until you lose the difference between leaves and flesh.
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Debutantes in Distress
Lori Baker’s new short story collection, Crash and Tell, is led by a cast of women whose rich creative minds derail their own lives.
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Irreconcilable Differences
Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced.