Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
The Poet. The Novelist. You know the type. The capitalization shows even when they refuse to...
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The Poet. The Novelist. You know the type. The capitalization shows even when they refuse to...
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Growing up in a rural part of the Midwest in the 1980s, what I learned about Communism was limited...
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It isn’t often that I search for other reviews of a book before finishing at least a draft...
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To get the mundane aspects out of the way early: there’s nothing mechanically wrong...
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… Doesn’t it always seem that’s how it is, Tom? We lie the most to those nearest...
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Andre Dubus III is the kind of writer every MFA student in the 1990s aspired to be. A...
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s a man’s world. And in this man’s world, a woman has...
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Within a month of this writing, the state of Texas performed its 500th execution since 1982. That...
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Tom Gauld, cartoonist for the book review section of The Guardian, published a piece that I think...
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