A Review of Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense & Eye Level
The Rupture Tense, a National Book Award Finalist, is eerie and haunting, shot through with strange commands and otherworldly writing.
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hkreditor
- Oct 22, 2022
- 9 min
An Unyielding Relic: The Confucian Revival as Shown in Gu Mu’s Autobiography
As a technocrat and one of the main architects of China's economic miracle, Gu made Confucianism an essential part of China's politics.
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hkreditor
- Jul 6, 2022
- 5 min
A Review of Bruce Meyer's Toast Soldiers
Inside every writer, there is a child screaming to be heard as innocence slips through her/his blood-stained fingers.
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
A Review of Jhilam Chattaraj's Collection of Poems "Noise Cancellation"
In present times, where “the new normal” is changing drastically, the poems are a welcoming read.
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Shin Yu Pai's Collection of Poems Virga
It is a comforting, meditative and spiritual book that offers some semblance of solace in these harrowing times.
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
Staring Outwards in All the Directions: A Review on Michelle Cahill’s Poetry Collection Vishvarupa
Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of Sanjeev Sethi’s Hesitancies
Sethi shows us the uses of poetry; He also moulds his craft to articulate the wise, rare yet universal verities of life.
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- Sep 23, 2021
- 17 min
Lonely Ghosts: Absence as Somethingness in the Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen
To see oneself only as a victim simplifies power and excuses the victim from the obligations of ethical behavior in politics, warfare...
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- Aug 21, 2021
- 6 min
Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality: On Andrew Palmer’s The Bachelor
You’re willing to go with Palmer’s narrator on his existential quest, and entertain his lofty meta-critiques on contemporary culture.
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- Jul 4, 2021
- 5 min
The English Professor Who Linked Literature to World Politics
Brennan is convincing in his rendering of a self-critical intellectual who opened the world’s mind to the impact of language and art.
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- Jun 6, 2021
- 5 min
Prologue to Someone's Always Watching You
It must be said from the outset that Mac Aogáin’s writing is beyond classification.
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- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
Oh, Yes it Will
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America brings us to now, the intersectionality of the historical and present.
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- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
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- Apr 4, 2021
- 6 min
A Guide and an Almanac
by John Liddy Kieran Beville opens his book with the appropriate chapter heading, “Making a Start,” and some advice from Stephen King:...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 10 min
SO WILL THE SCRIBES
by Nicolas D. Sampson Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (Bantam Classics, 1988) ‘But I counsel...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
A Candle for Her Lake-staring Mother
by John Liddy Zephyr by Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry, 2010) On first browsing through these poems with my customary “getting to know you”...
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- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
Instead of a Review a Tribute to Mark Whelan
by John Liddy The Sear of Wounds by Mark Whelan (Doghouse, 2012) In my copy of Mark’s last published book, The Sear of Wounds, he wrote a...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 11 min
Ugly Beautiful Books
by Anjanette Delgado What is it about the ugly, the scatological, that has such power to break us open? To clear our defenses and...
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- Mar 7, 2021
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We are looking for thoughtful, engaging, and beautifully written book reviews of around 2000 words. Please submit your review of works of...
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