With this memoir-y collection of essays, published in 2009, Waldman beat Roxane Gay to the titular idea of ideological/institutional failure by five years. And Bad Mother and Bad Feminist do…
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
August 1, 2017At first I was enchanted with this novel, but then I decided it’s bloated. Pessl is definitely a talented writer, and the novel eventually finds a plot, but it took…
State of Wonder
July 26, 2017I always swear that I’ll never teach Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness ever again, because I can’t face the thought of any more partially plagiarized essays about the symbolism of…
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
July 24, 2017This title seemed like it would be a short easy introduction to Neil Gaiman; I’m not sure I’m ready to take on American Gods, in book or TV series form. To…
The Dante Club
July 2, 2017A mildly entertaining literary mystery about a serial killer inspired by Dante’s Inferno to “punish” evil-doers in the period after the Civil War. The unlikely detectives are the members of…
Great Russian Short Stories
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A Murder of Magpies
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Above Us Only Sky
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Pregnant Butch
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