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Académie Française Honors Vargas Llosa

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Académie Française, Death In The Andes, Harsh Times, Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian writer with a complex worldview receives France’s highest literary award

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No One Is Talking About The Booker

November 30, 2021December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam, Booker Prize, Damon Galgut, Nathan Harris, No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood, The Promise, The Sweetness of Water

Three more novels in this year’s literary prison sentence

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Escaped From New York

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Anton Chekhov, Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

Gary Shteyngart lampoons bougie pandemic habits in ‘Our Country Friends’

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Attacks on Student Access to Books Ramping up Nationwide

November 18, 2021December 1, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, Ashley Hope Perez, Gabrielle Union, George M. Johnson, Last Night At The Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, PEN America, Separate Is Never Equal

An unprecedented wave of censorship attempts

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Bow Down Before ‘The Every’

November 16, 2021November 23, 2021 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1984, Dave Eggers, The Circle, The Every

In Dave Eggers’s sequel to ‘The Circle,’ a corporation grows bigger and more powerful, and everyone just falls in line

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Discworld

November 11, 2021November 16, 2021 Ayun Halliday 1 Comment Apple+, LaserWriter II, Steve Buscemi, Tamara Shopsin, TekServe

Tamara Shopsin remembers a less digital NYC in a novel about a legendary independent Mac repair shop

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‘Termination Shock’

November 9, 2021November 24, 2021 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, Seveneves, Termination Shock

An epic climate-change novel from Neal Stephenson

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The Great Gurnah

November 3, 2021November 11, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinua Achebe, Haruki Murakami, Paradise, Peter Carey, Peter Handke, Things Fall Apart

An appreciation of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature

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How About NOT banning ‘Beloved’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’?

November 1, 2021November 11, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Beloved, Lord of the Flies, Toni Morrison, William Golding

These days, everyone is a censor

FICTION Politics

We’re all living in ‘Fahrenheit 451’

October 27, 2021November 6, 2021 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Censorship, Cornel West, Fahrenheit 451, Library of America, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King

The Library of America Ray Bradbury edition is prophecy, not past

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Franzen Meets God at the ‘Crossroads’

October 25, 2021October 29, 2021 Edward McClelland 0 Comments Crossroads, Freedom, John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

America’s #1 novelist man debuts an epic about Christianity in the Chicago suburbs

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Venezuela, Before the Fall

October 21, 2021October 25, 2021 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Hugo Chavez, Moisés Naim, Two Spies in Caracas, Venezuela

Remembering the good old days when there were only ‘Two Spies in Caracas’

FICTION Remembrance Young Adult

The Wild Books of Gary Paulsen

October 18, 2021October 20, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Dogsong, Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, Into The Wild, Northwind, The Call of the Wild, Winterdance

Author of young-adult adventure stories is dead at age 82

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Evison, Pérez Speak Out Against Censorship

October 12, 2021October 13, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Out of Darkness

Authors deal with a rise of school book bans across the country

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I DARE you to read TikTok’s ‘hottest/kinkiest/forbidden novel’

October 11, 2021October 13, 2021 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Harley LaRoux, The Dare

Warning: this review is hardcore

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