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Tao Lin’s ‘Taipei’
13 Jun 2013
Reviewed by Pat Finn
Taipei follows Paul, a Brooklyn-based twentysomething writer resembling Lin who drifts in and out of parties, relationships, and various chemically induced states of consciousness.
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A Talk with Katherine Angel
6 Jun 2013
Interviewed by Meredith Turits
In Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell, Katherine Angel opens up. This month marks the Stateside publication of the U.K. scholar’s poetic rumination on gender, sexuality, and, of course, desire.
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Curtis White’s ‘The Science Delusion’
5 Jun 2013
Reviewed by Pat Finn
The Science Delusion is essentially an artist’s polemic, not only against the New Atheists but against the ideology they recommend as an alternative to religion.
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Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
22 May 2013
Reviewed by Jeff Price
In the new gripping and important anthology with a foreword by Colum McCann, short stories about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hauntingly unfold and reveal truths about our deepest fears and desires.
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Bennett Sims’ ‘A Questionable Shape’
20 May 2013
Reviewed by David Burr Gerrard
A Questionable Shape is ostensibly about zombies, but Sims is much less interested in chase scenes and infection countdowns than in using undeath to explore memory, home, family, love, and the question what makes a person a person rather than a zombie?
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Santiago Roncagliolo’s ‘Hi, This is Conchita’
16 May 2013
Reviewed by Nicole Casamento
Hi, This is Conchitaoffers an encompassing view of the ways we become detached from intimacy and the painful, misguided ways in which we attempt to retrieve it.
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Interview: Claire Messud
13 May 2013
Interviewed by David Burr Gerrard
Esteemed writer and academic, Claire Messud, discusses her new novel The Woman Upstairs,its controversial reception, and our entangled forms of media.
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Fiona Maazel’s ‘Woke Up Lonely’
3 May 2013
Reviewed by Valerie Stivers
At the center of Maazel’s zany novel is Thurlow Dan, a self-help guru who has recently made an ill-advised trip to North Korea, and who is being spied on by the U.S. Government.
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