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Frankissstein: by Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein is a retelling of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic with a big red kiss of…
Year of the Monkey: by Patti Smith
Smith expertly lays down the lines to articulate the times before and after the 2016…
Essays One: by Lydia Davis
Essays One is a vivid demonstration of the voracity and playful rigor of Davis’ writing…
Gaeilge: by Caoimhín de Barra
Caoimhín de Barra has a seemingly straightforward goal for the language: “having it more widely…
Little Weirds: by Jenny Slate
Little Weirds is an almost uncomfortably intimate, albeit abstract, look into Jenny Slate's mind.
Bright: by Duanwad Pimwana
Bright is an ode to both individual resilience and the power of community.
Dialectic of Pop: by Agnès Gayraud
If we started with something like blues or folk or spirituals and ended up at…
Rusty Brown: by Chris Ware
Discovering a Chris Ware book is akin to stumbling into the coolest gallery in town.
Solid State: by Kenneth Womack
Womack humanizes and demystifies the mythic status of the album and of the four Beatles,…