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“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on
... See more“His name was Horatio Brown. A throwback,” I said, smiling at the memory. “The type who kept a bottle of whiskey in his desk. Smoked three packs a day. Would occasionally flip through a thick file of his favorite dirty photos that he’d snapped on the job. Believed, as a physical rule of the universe, that every client was lying to him. In that,
... See moreDann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
An air altogether of occupying a time not his own – might he be more at ease in an Edwardian dining room, say, or on a pitching clipper’s deck? Very likely.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
The Marginalian
Steven Schlafman • 1 card
There was something heroic about Tully in his thirst for life. He bridged the old with the new and was on a mission to be morally alert.
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022
atavistic
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Since Perry was confirmed, his role has been ceremonial and bizarre. He pops up in distant lands and tweets in praise of this or that DOE program while his masters inside the White House create budgets to eliminate those very programs. His sporadic public communications have had in them something of the shell-shocked grandmother trying to preside
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