Reviewed by Jill Moyer Sunday
Letters to a Young Muslim
Nonfiction by Omar Saif Ghobash
Picador, January 2017
£16.99; 272 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1509842599
The intersection of fundamentalist Islamic ...
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Reviewed by John W. W. Zeiser
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Poems by Aja Monet
Haymarket Books, May 2017
$16.00; 120 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1608467679
“Gestures in good faith do not change oppression,” ...
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Reviewed by Charlotte Kupsh
Person/a
A novel by Elizabeth Ellen
Short Flight/Long Drive Books, February 2017
$19.00; 616 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9896950-6-0
In her dizzying, metatextual debut novel, ...
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Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Poems by Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib
Button Poetry, July 2016
$16.00; 124 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1943735044
An older reader (like this one) might ...
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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars
Canoeing with José
Nonfiction by Jon Lurie
Milkweed Editions, June 2017
$16.00; 328 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1571313218
In his seminal 1935 nonfiction work Canoeing with the Cree, ...
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Reviewed by David Keplinger
From Nothing
Poems by Daniel Tobin
Four Way Books, March 2016
$15.95; 39 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1935536697
Recently I attended the memorial service of a former head of robotics at ...
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Reviewed by L. Ann Wheeler
The Mother of All Questions
Essays by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books, March 2017
$14.95; 192 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1608467402
If you read one book about feminism this summer, let ...
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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars
Imagine Wanting Only This
Graphic Memoir by Kristen Radtke
Pantheon, April 2017
$29.95; 288 pp.
ISBN13: 978-1101870839
In her essay, “Time and Distance Overcome,” writer Eula ...
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Reviewed by Daniel Pecchenino
Freebird
A novel by Jon Raymond
Graywolf Press, January 2017
$26.00; 336 pp.
ISBN13: 978-1555977603
About halfway through Jon Raymond’s new novel Freebird, the narrative ...
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