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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 11, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1970s period films, 1973 Chilean coup, absurdist humor, American foreign policy, Augusto Pinochet, Bay of Pigs, betrayal, black comedy, character driven drama, Chile, CIA, CIA history, Cold War, Cold War espionage, Congo, covert operations, Cuba, dark comedy, Easter Island, espionage films, existential comedy, film criticism, Friendship, gallows humor, government corruption, Guatemala, guilt and regret, historical fiction, In Bruges, Indonesia, intelligence agencies, John F. Kennedy assassination, John Malkovich, loyalty, Martin McDonagh, Martin McDonagh films, melancholic comedy, mercy killing, misanthropy, Moai statues, moral ambiguity, moral responsibility, mortality, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Patrice Lumumba, political assassinations, political satire, political thriller, Rapa Nui, redemption, Salvador Allende, Sam Rockwell, Santiago, spy movies, Steve Buscemi, terminal illness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Waits, US interventionism, Wild Horse Nine, Wild Horse Nine review

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell take Martin McDonagh’s jaded Cold War warriors and turn them into Big Heads on Easter Island

Nine Books on Immigration

October 18, 2026October 15, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afghan women poets, Afghanistan, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Andreas Kossert, Axis of Empire, book recommendations, books about immigration, Death of the Soccer God, Dimitry Elias Léger, Hair on Fire, Haiti, Hamdullah Mohib, historical fiction, How to Close a Camp, immigrant detention, immigrant experiences, immigrant memoirs, immigration history, Immigration literature, immigration policy, Iran, John Washington, Katya Suvorova, memoir, new books 2026, Nghiem Tran, Nonfiction, Our Hours Are Married to Shadow, Poetry, queer literature, Rafael Osío Cabrices, refugee stories, Shadows over Kabul, Tam Hussein, The Uprooted, Twilight in Venezuela, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Venezuela, Vietnamese American poetry, World Cup 2026

From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

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Every Book You Need To Read This Summer Is Out in June

June 2, 2026June 6, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Andrew Sean Greer, Andrew Wilson, Ann Patchett, book recommendations, book roundup, books, Brandon Sanderson, Caroline Kepnes, Deb Haaland, Fantasy, fiction, Harper, historical fiction, horror novels, Isabel J Kim, Jason Kelce, June 2026 books, Knopf, Lisa See, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, Marilyn Monroe, Mary H.K. Choi, memoirs, new books, Paul Tremblay, Peter Orullian, romance novels, science fiction, Scribner, Son Bo mi, summer books, summer reading, Tor Books, Travis Kelce

15 new releases you need: from Maggie O’Farrell to Deb Haaland, from Travis Kelce to Marilyn Monroe

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Save Us, Godzilla!

November 8, 2026November 11, 2026 Neal Pollack 0

Takachi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ sets the stage for a renewed franchise

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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 11, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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