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A Blog About Books and Reading
The tone Sharlet adopts for most of his book is plaintive, ironic, and not so much aghast at the existential state of his home country as sadly resigned.
Warner acts as part literary historian, part biographer, and part amateur detective.
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Cinema Speculation is a good primer on the groundbreaking cinema that influenced one of the savviest, most provocative filmmakers of his own generation.
Smith guides readers through almost six centuries in which the technology of the codex has remained relatively unchanged.
"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.
Taken together, Dream States and Sideways comprise a particularly incisive look at the theory and practice of smart cities.
Together, these essays provide a justification and rationale for queer readings of what may in fact turn out to be one of the queerest genres around.
The two Indigenous authors offer different ways of thinking about the stories we tell ourselves and providing suggestions for how to rewrite those stories to our benefit.