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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Ready or Not, it’s ‘Ready Player Two’

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Daniel Cohen 1 Comment Depeche Mode, Ernest Cline, Jordan Peterson, Prince, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two, Steven Spielberg

Bad sex scenes, virtual-reality nonsense, and 80s trash-culture pastiche

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‘Mank’ in the Tank

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Citizen Kane, Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Gary Oldman, Jack Fincher, Louis C.K., Madonna, Mank, Trumbo, William Randolph Hearst

David Fincher’s Old Hollywood movie is a pretentious snooze

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Inside Martin Amis

November 16, 2020November 19, 2020 Matt Hanson 1 Comment Christopher Hitchens, Inside Story, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow, The New Statesman

In his latest “novel”, the writer dishes on Christopher Hitchens, Philip Larkin, and Saul Bellow, among others

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What Happens When the Tech Stops Working?

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Trevor Seigler 1 Comment

‘The Arrest’: Jonathan Lethem’s semi-hopeful take on the End of Days

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Poison Ivy

November 11, 2020November 23, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments House of Mirth, Susie Yang, White Ivy

‘White Ivy’: an “Asian-American ‘House of Mirth’”

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The Walking Klan

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Lovecraft Country, P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout, Watchmen

In P. Djèlí Clark’s ‘Ring Shout,” the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s are actual monsters

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Fantasylands

November 2, 2020November 5, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments A Deadly Education, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Kim Stanley Robinson, Moby Dick, Naomi Novik, Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, Temeraire, The Ministry For the Future

New novels from Susanna Clarke, Naomi Novik, and Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Distorted Mirrors of Nicole Krauss

November 2, 2020November 6, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

A gifted writer perceptive about so many things–except her own class privilege

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I’m Still Reading The Booker Prize Novels So You Don’t Have To

October 20, 2020October 22, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Booker Prize, Brandon Taylor, C. Pam Zhang, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Hilary Mantel, How Much Of These Hills is Gold, Real Life, Shuggie Bain, The Mirror and the Light, The New Wilderness, This Moveable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga

The slog continues

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Mystery Men

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Jen DeLuca, Olivia Dade, Rosie Danan, Spoiler Alert, The Roommate, Well Met

In the world of romance novels, mistaken identity is still sexy

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The Curious Case of the Emo Sherlock

October 5, 2020October 6, 2020 Jonah Dylan 0 Comments Enola Holmes, Henry Cavill, Netflix, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate sues Netflix because Henry Cavill’s Holmes is too sensitive

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Travel is a Disaster

September 30, 2020October 1, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Lizzie Buehler, The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun

An interview with ‘Disaster Tourist’ author Yun Ko-eun (and her translator)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Sister

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Frank Wu 1 Comment Arthur Conan Doyle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Enola Holmes, Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Jonny Lee Miller, Millie Bobby Brown, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes

‘Enola Holmes’ is a welcome addition to the Sherlock multiverse

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Don DeLillo Breaks The Silence

September 23, 2020September 30, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Cosmpolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Midnight in Dostoyevsky, The Body Artist, Time To Destination

Should a revered author be speaking at this point in his long career?

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Please Stop Microwaving Your Library Books

September 21, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment CDC, Free Library of Philadelphia, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library Book, microwave, RFID, twitter

A COVID-era public service announcement

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