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Kevin Thomas
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HORN! REVIEWS: Her Body and Other Parties
Sounds come from just outside—and then just outside that.
HORN! REVIEWS: American War
War takes and takes, and what's left untouched is locked up in the past, reachable only by memory.
HORN! REVIEWS: Walden
While he doesn't offer all the answers we want, he reminds us that we don't see things as they are, which is key to anything.
HORN! REVIEWS: Strangers in Their Own Land
What makes outdoorsy Cajuns tolerate oil companies poisoning their land? The short answer: white identity politics.
HORN! REVIEWS: Letters to Memory
Yamashita evokes the time of displacement, the dust, Christian charity and Christian racism, the problematics of documenting struggle, and the importance of art, laughter, and waffles.
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?"
HORN! REVIEWS: Parable of the Sower
The dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible.
HORN! REVIEWS: The Gift
A beautifully illustrated review of Barbara Browning's The Gift from HORN! Reviews.
HORN! Reviews: The War on Science
Scientists and laypeople need to come together to save our democracy, if not our planet.
Notable Los Angeles: 5/1–5/7
Monday 5/1:Â Reyna Biddy presents and signs I Love My Love. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 5/2:Â Gina Sorrell launches her new novel, Mothers & Other Strangers. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s…