Book reviews
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Downdrift
by Johanna Drucker Publisher: Three Rooms Press Released 2018 Reviewed July 9, 2018 Koalas work in the construction industry. Coyotes run for school board. Armadillos breakdance. Prairie dogs gamble. Lemurs sell jewelry. Silverfish volunteer to take notes for crows gathering oral histories (this doesn’t end well). Giraffes develop a passion for flute playing. They partner with little jerboas that finger the notes by hopping about and pressing their cheeks against the flute holes. I haven’t laughed so much while reading a novel in a very, very long time. And yet, Johanna Drucker’s Downdrift is completely serious. Continue reading. For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh Released: 2017 Reviewed March 27, 2018 We by Laura S. Distelheim Publisher: Goldline Press Released: 2017 Reviewed December 18, 2017 The Protester Has Been Released by Janet Sarbanes Publisher: C&R Press Released: 2016 Reviewed December 4, 2017 Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman Publisher: Deep Vellum Released: 2016 Reviewed September 11, 2017 The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Translated from the French by John Cullen Publisher: Other Press Released: 2015 Reviewed June 5, 2017 Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent Publisher: Open Letter Books Released: 2009 Reviewed May 10, 2017 1914 by Jean Echenoz Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Publisher: The New Press Released: 2014 Reviewed April 25, 2016 Underground by Antanas Sileika Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers Released: 2011 Reviewed March 2, 2016 |
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