Further Joy by John Brandon
Within the last couple months, a handful of complex fictional works have traveled to the kinds of...
Read MoreWithin the last couple months, a handful of complex fictional works have traveled to the kinds of...
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Read MoreIf you tell me that Douglas Watson isn’t the nicest person alive, I won’t believe you. A Moody...
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Read MoreThis is part 5 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
Read MoreThis is part 4 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
Read MoreThis is part 3 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
Read MoreThis is part 2 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
Read MoreThis is part 1 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
Read MoreUsually, I avoid quoting from book jacket copy, but in the case of Mark Greaney’s Dead Eye (which...
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Read MoreGina Frangello’s A Life in Men doesn’t really have a plot—it has accumulation. Proceeding loosely...
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, flying with my parents from Maine to Minnesota to visit family, I would look out...
Read MoreVictoria Patterson’s The Peerless Four is a sports novel for people who don’t really like sports....
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Read MoreChic wants a “normal life”—or so he tells Diane when he begins to date her in 1950. If this seems...
Read MoreImagine a college classroom. The professor is giving his umpteenth lecture on Moby Dick when an...
Read More“Some days it seems […] that life holds important and beautiful stories. Other days, life isn’t...
Read MoreAt sea, a group of men struggles to reel in a marlin—a struggle that lands two brothers in the...
Read MoreSo many great “Avantpop” works—Steve Erickson’s Amnesiascope, Jonathan Lethem’s early genre...
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