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3 Word Review: โPalm-of-the-Hand Storiesโ by Yasunari Kawabata -
Lifetime collection from the Japanese master of fiction are essentially moments from life, each with its own inward importance.
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Review: "Work and Days" by Tess Taylor -
Taylor's (post-)pastoral works expose a year of simple planting against our imposing, looming days of terror and despair. What results is genuine and dynamic, a dialogue with the present and--dare we believe it--solace.
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3 Word Review: โApe and Essenceโ by Aldous Huxley -
Working hard to be innovative, the bestial counter-Christian scene is core Huxley.
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Review: โThe Hate U Giveโ by Angie Thomas -
A call to action, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, a tightly written story that risks not outlasting the problem it addresses.
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Just a Question: Who's a poet you, at first, could not appreciate?
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3 Word Review: โTwo Viking Romancesโ by Palsson and Edwards (trans) -
An excerpt from a larger selection of works, these two old tales are delightfully raunchy campfire tales of monsters, magic, and men.
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3 Word Review: โVinland Sagasโ by Keneva Kunz (trans) -
Original two texts that lay the evidence for the Norse discovery of North America.
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Review: "The Future" by Catherine Leroux -
Leroux's fascinating maze of women and magic in this alt-history of Detroit offers not just a glimpse of our social future in a climate crisis but something that also powerfully endures.
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3 Word Review: โSkimโ by Mariko Tamaki -
Tight and vulnerable story of adolescent questions around love, death, and the relationships in between. Subtle and beautifully told.
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3 Word Review: โSomething is Killing the Children Vols. 4-7โ by James Tynion IV -
An entertaining TV-ready storyline that too often trades satisfactory character and plot development for mood (and very effective artwork).
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Review: "Noor" by Nnedi Okorafor -
Okorafor's novel is tightly-written but with powerful world-building, focused on the plight (and power) of those marginalized in the race for progress.
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3 Word Review: โCollected Poemsโ by James Joyce -
More for completists rather than their own merit, Joyce's poems show little of the linguistic complexity or innovation of his prose.
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The Shakespearean sonnet by its formal nature elevates its subject (not necessarily who--or what--is addressed).
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Review: "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch -
Lynch's suffocating prose captures the experience of civilians who wait too long, denying a democracy's fall.
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3 Word Review: โWork & Daysโ by Tess Taylor -
Taylor's poetry across one year on a rural America farm is not merely with the humus of that existence but with the connective tissues to contemporary anxiety.
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Review: "Observations on the Mystery of Print" by Hendrik Willem van Loon -
Van Loon succeeds in not only offering a concise history of ancient printing and invention, but usurping most of our mythology around Joann Gutenberg. An illuminating short read from 1937 that openly declares that it is not anti-German.
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The pantoum tends to move over the same ground repeatedly. The second form is the free verse version. (And no, this is not about any of my personal neighbors!)
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