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The Crying Book Review: Heather Christle’s Poetic Bites of Prose Investigate the History of Our Tears
Heather Christle wants to know why we cry.
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The Water Dancer Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ First Foray into Narrative Fiction
ONE WORLD / AUTHOR PHOTO BY GABRIELLA DEMCZUK Ta-Nehisi Coates plays to his strengths with The Water Dancer, his first foray into narrative fiction. He sets the story in a time and place he knows well: pre-Civil War America. It’s a period of our country’s history that he’s explored in much of his writing, particularly […]
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The Water Dancer: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ First Foray into Narrative Fiction
The only hiccup: superpowers.
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Joker Review: Sympathy for the Devil (Wow. How Is That Song Not in This Movie?)
Niko Tavernise One time I was talking to a guy who’d been married to one of my friends. This was after he lost his grip on reality and started dressing up like Batman. He told me about being on the MAX and seeing a bunch of bikers harassing an old lady. “And everyone’s looking at […]
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Book Review Patti Smith’s Year of the Monkey: Spare Me the Boomer Mysticism
STEVEN SEBRING Did the world begin to collapse in 2016 because corporate greed reached its zenith as political courage reached its nadir, or because it was the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac? Mystic punk rocker Patti Smith investigates in Year of the Monkey. This book follows Just Kids, a National Book Award–winning […]
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The Best, Weirdest, and Scariest Books About Climate Change
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” So begins journalist David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a book about climate change that reminds you, chapter after chapter, that even if you think you know how bad things are, and even if you think you know how much worse they’re going to get, […]
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Naomi Klein’s On Fire Is an Update and a Primer
SIMON AND SCHUSTER / AUTHOR PHOTO BY KOUROSH KESHIRI It’s easy to get the impression that all Naomi Klein really wanted On Fire to be is its 53-page introduction, which reads like an update to her fairly optimistic 2014 book about climate change, This Changes Everything. Since you can’t sell a 53-page book (something I […]
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On Fire Book Review: Naomi Klein Beckons Us to Look Behind the Burning Climate Curtain
“Seriously, you guys,” Naomi Klein’s new work seems to say. “Please be fucking serious about this.”
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The Best Portland Bookshops That Aren’t Powells
Being a Portland bookstore that isn’t Powell’s is a little bit like being related to Beyoncé: No matter how good you are at doing your thing, you’re never going to get a fraction of the attention. But learning to accept that fact comes with a certain freedom to find your niche and excel—after all, if […]
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The Goldfinch Review: In the Age-Old Battle of Books vs. Movies, Books Win Again
Warner Bros. Pictures If you’ve read Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, I am happy to report there’s zero need for you to sit through the remarkably tedious two-and-a-half-hour movie adaptation. If you haven’t read The Goldfinch, I am happy to report there’s zero need for you to sit through the remarkably tedious two-and-a-half-hour movie adaptation. This […]
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It: Chapter Two Review: The Final Installment Hits and Drags
Brooke Palmer In the rosy glow of memory, It: Chapter One seems like a good film. My initial criticisms have faded, and now I just remember the loudmouth kids in the “Losers Club”—tearing around on bikes, experiencing helplessness and terror in their toxic hometown of Derry, Maine, and fleeing from the malevolent shape-shifting creature threatening […]