The Rhythm Becomes a Thing of the Spirit: On ‘Religion Around Billie Holiday’ by Tracy Fessenden
“Catholicism puts them both into a larger musical conversation than the relay between rural South and urban North, between spirituals and swing.”
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Top 10 Books About Online: An Excerpt from ‘Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction’
Scholars concluded that this mysterious slab was an index of the Sumerian canon. Literature began with the list: Online just made the links palpable.
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Jordy Rosenberg and Andrea Lawlor on Exploding Narrative Structure and Theory Posturing
I wanted always to be around other queers and other seekers, and the world of queer theory was a world of queer seekers.
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Olga Tokarczuk Explores the Live Chain That Connects and Fetters Us in ‘Flights’
Flights investigates the exploitative relationships people often form, the ways the living chain of humanity and our planet becomes tarnished and damaging.
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Poetry and Intrigue in Uzbekistan: On Hamid Ismailov’s ‘The Devil’s Dance’
The book's saved by Ismailov’s storytelling and Rayfield’s translation even when the narrative’s back is bent with too much history and too many characters.
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What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? On Crystal Hana Kim’s ‘If You Leave Me’
This is a grand, sweeping story with individualized characters and a nuanced perspective that refuses to essentialize war, women, or national identity.
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The Failure Artist: Writing Bullshit, Getting Rejected, and Keeping at It
Failing to sell my book killed the part of me that still believed I was going to be a famous writer. To my astonishment, this realization set me free.
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