HORN! REVIEWS: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
[T]hese stories skewer clergy and gentry, delight in appetites, and dare to ask, an even answer, “Why am I human?”
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HORN! REVIEWS: Parable of the Sower
The dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Gift
A beautifully illustrated review of Barbara Browning’s The Gift from HORN! Reviews.
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HORN! Reviews: The War on Science
Scientists and laypeople need to come together to save our democracy, if not our planet.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Mrs Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway, whose art form is social life, steps outside on a June day…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Man Without a Face
The ‘how’ of this story is fascinating, but the ‘what’ is too sad to think about: the methodical dismantling of Russian democracy.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Nova
As the musician says to the novelist, “I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me.”
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Plot Against America
It’s as if Roth, in 2004, had inhaled a Delphic vapor to bring us this vision of an alternate then so eerily like our now.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Fire This Time
What will happen to all that beauty?
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HORN! Reviews: Fahrenheit 451
Here’s a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad…
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HORN! REVIEWS: NW
This is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Camanchaca
HORN! Reviews brings us another beautiful illustrated review, this time of Diego Zúñiga’s Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Long Walk
What started as an update of “The Lottery” for the Vietnam era is now a guidebook to a country that has obviated satire.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Wangs vs. the World
“Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?”
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Trouble With Lexie
But we don’t always behave rationally; sometimes we let pheromones, Klonopin, and the Yahtzee gods decide for us.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Revolutionaries Try Again
Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
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HORN! REVIEWS: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
This book is the product of twenty-three years of writing and running—6 miles a day, 6 days a week.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Unbearable Splendor
Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Why the Olympics Aren’t Good for Us, and How They Can Be
…like any great idea, it has the potential to be more boon than burden…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Textbooks obfuscate the past, making science seem a smooth and cumulative process.
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HORN! REVIEWS: My Brilliant Friend
Since I’m nowhere near the first, let me be only the most recent to entreat you to read the story of Lenú…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Moviegoer
…but when the only time you felt alive was the time you nearly died, what do you do?
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HORN! REVIEWS: Before the Feast
On the eponymous night before, the sleepy town of Fürstenfelde is wide awake.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Pitch Dark
Start the outboard motor—it’s time to go island-hopping with Kate Ennis, the postmodern Penelope.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Journey Into the Past
…true love isn’t necessarily impossible, but time and contingency make impossible love sadly true.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Mathilda
Yes, Frankenstein was the birth of a genre, but this book is even more visionary: centuries ahead of its time.
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HORN! REVIEWS: We
But pollen can get inside the green wall, and so can drink, smoke, color, unsanctioned sex, and history.
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HORN! REVIEWS: A Collapse of Horses
While they run the gamut of genres, these stories all lie in the same orbit of dark gravity…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Bowie
HORN! Reviews brings us an illustrated review of Simon Critchley’s Bowie.
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