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Shape of a Key, of a Dog, of a Letter

  • Kate Angus
  • December 29, 2010
Cassian’s strongest poems–and there are many of them in Continuum–function in this way, where the initially familiar becomes a catalyst for something pleasurably disorienting as she subverts the expectations that…
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A Clouded Thing

  • John Wilwol
  • December 28, 2010
Jaimy Gordon’s National Book Award-winning novel conveys the hard-knock world of horseracing in a style reminiscent of Walker Percy and Mark Twain.
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Hammer Is the Prayer of the Poor and the Dying

  • Dean Rader
  • December 22, 2010
For [Christian] Wiman, form is the fire his feet are held to. It’s the syntactic embers that burn, the linguistic flames that flare. At no point does Wiman let the reader forget he is reading poetry.
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You Know Nothing of My Work!

  • Thomas Larson
  • December 21, 2010
Douglas Coupland’s new biography of Marshall McLuhan bends the rules of the medium—but what, exactly, is the message?
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From Exuberant Hanging Gardens

  • Sean Singer
  • December 17, 2010
Leslie Williams is a fine poet, skillful and smart. She takes a range of topics I find by themselves repelling or uninteresting (suburban life, nature, flowers, gardening, Thomas Jefferson, the…
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Animal Farm

  • Mimi Albert
  • December 16, 2010
The residents of the Rancho Armadillo commune share everything, but soon discover that people, like chickens and pigs, are “not rational beings.”
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Monkey Bars

  • Kathleen Rooney
  • December 15, 2010
The result of Lippman’s perpetual contentiousness is a collection that is confrontational in the best sense of the word, interrogating the reader, himself, and America pretty much as a whole…
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Polar Bear in Paradise

  • Michael Halmshaw
  • December 13, 2010
The protagonist of T Cooper’s short novel is an ambitious, self-destructive, porn-loving, totally sympathetic… bear.
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Hammer and Landslide, an Exhilaration

  • Barbara Berman
  • December 8, 2010
Watson’s skill here, as on so many pages, is to be accessible and kinetic while seeing something new in a common experience. Her sight is so unique, her inner editor…
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Asunder

  • J. A. Tyler
  • December 7, 2010
“Boats are lost at sea. Drowning is different. Water fills the lungs making life at first difficult, then impossible, to sustain.”
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The Way We Live Now

  • Shawna Yang Ryan
  • December 6, 2010
Two recent books by Asian American writers confront stereotypes while exploring the rich interiority of the characters’ lives.
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Get Off Your Ass and Blow Shit Up

  • Matt McGregor
  • December 2, 2010
The Avian Gospels is a strange, compelling parable about an authoritarian city-state, an underground resistance, and a plague of mysterious birds.
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