Thursday, November 7, 2019
Virginie Despentes novel reads like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia mashed with Don Quixote and set in contemporary Paris.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12PMSunday, September 15, 2019
As a River is a sensuously and smoothly written book, a heartfelt meditation on what divides us from each other and from love.
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We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves.
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The Ash Family is a full-color illustration of how the modern world leaves people vulnerable to radical ideas.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:46PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
The Bird King is an utterly lovely reading experience.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:55PMFriday, February 22, 2019
The Western Wind turns out to be a beautifully written novel, a serious book of great depth, intention, and craft.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMMonday, February 18, 2019
Everything about Schumacher's story indicates that clichés about the '50s are so powerful because things really were that way: repressive, poisonous, full of unspoken secrets and blustering…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSunday, November 25, 2018
This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMMonday, October 8, 2018
The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PMMonday, September 3, 2018
Summer Cannibals' main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMMonday, June 4, 2018
Rupert Thomson's Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:36PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
No Way Home is a model for how to tell a weird, complicated story in a way that will make the reader hang on tight for the whole ride.
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