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Review: "Work and Days" by Tess Taylor -

Taylor's (post-)pastoral works expose a year of simple planting against our imposing, looming days of terror and despair. What results is genuine and dynamic, a dialogue with the present and--dare we believe it--solace.

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3 Word Review: “Ape and Essence” by Aldous Huxley -

Working hard to be innovative, the bestial counter-Christian scene is core Huxley.

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Review: “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas -

A call to action, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, a tightly written story that risks not outlasting the problem it addresses.

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Just a Question: Who's a poet you, at first, could not appreciate?

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3 Word Review: “Two Viking Romances” by Palsson and Edwards (trans) -

An excerpt from a larger selection of works, these two old tales are delightfully raunchy campfire tales of monsters, magic, and men.

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3 Word Review: “Vinland Sagas” by Keneva Kunz (trans) -

Original two texts that lay the evidence for the Norse discovery of North America.

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Review: "The Future" by Catherine Leroux -

Leroux's fascinating maze of women and magic in this alt-history of Detroit offers not just a glimpse of our social future in a climate crisis but something that also powerfully endures.

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3 Word Review: “Skim” by Mariko Tamaki -

Tight and vulnerable story of adolescent questions around love, death, and the relationships in between. Subtle and beautifully told.

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3 Word Review: “Something is Killing the Children Vols. 4-7” by James Tynion IV -

An entertaining TV-ready storyline that too often trades satisfactory character and plot development for mood (and very effective artwork).

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Review: "Noor" by Nnedi Okorafor -

Okorafor's novel is tightly-written but with powerful world-building, focused on the plight (and power) of those marginalized in the race for progress.

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3 Word Review: “Collected Poems” by James Joyce -

More for completists rather than their own merit, Joyce's poems show little of the linguistic complexity or innovation of his prose.

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𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏" 𝑨 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕

The Shakespearean sonnet by its formal nature elevates its subject (not necessarily who--or what--is addressed).

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Review: "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch -

Lynch's suffocating prose captures the experience of civilians who wait too long, denying a democracy's fall.

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3 Word Review: “Work & Days” by Tess Taylor -

Taylor's poetry across one year on a rural America farm is not merely with the humus of that existence but with the connective tissues to contemporary anxiety.

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Review: "Observations on the Mystery of Print" by Hendrik Willem van Loon -

Van Loon succeeds in not only offering a concise history of ancient printing and invention, but usurping most of our mythology around Joann Gutenberg. An illuminating short read from 1937 that openly declares that it is not anti-German.

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𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈" - 𝒂 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒎

The pantoum tends to move over the same ground repeatedly. The second form is the free verse version. (And no, this is not about any of my personal neighbors!)

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3 Word Review: “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas -

As much call to action as fiction work, Thomas' book, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, risks only not outlasting the problem it addresses.

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