President of Smut
Our country has always been ruled by and for the privileged, but never has this glaring injustice in the system been made so shamelessly clear.
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Posts Tagged: Czechoslovakia
We Wish to Go to the Festival
After 13 years, another Milan Kundera novel has been translated into English for all us provincials who never learned French. At Slate, Benjamin Herman praises The Festival of Insignificance for its lighthearted wisdom: Insignificance is the work not of a grumpy old man but of a grinning old man.
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Bruce Machart’s debut novel channels Cormac McCarthy, while narrating a Southern gothic tale centered around women.
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