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Jerusalem
Unsurprisingly, Delisle’s reportage in Jerusalem works best when there’s something to report. Continue reading
Troop 142
What makes the book work is Dawson’s remarkable facility for writing dialogue with a painful level of verisimilitude. Continue reading
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations – Part One: 1783-1953
To flip through this volume, which traces the history of the United States’ dealings with the Middle East from its conflicts with Barbary pirates at the turn of the 19th century through the CIA overthrow of Iran in the 1950s, is to encounter a panoply of fantastical figures, whether they’re wearing turbans or tricorner hats. Continue reading
To Get Her
Bernie Mireault’s longest, most ambitious work to date unfortunately doesn’t work. Continue reading
Picket Line
Above all else, the Xeric Grant seems to reward ambition, and there’s no doubt that Breena Wiederhoeft’s debut graphic novel is an ambitious first work. Continue reading
Nurse Nurse
Skelly’s emphasis is on world-building, and the simple pleasures of tossing out big bold SF ideas on every page. The ideas are thrown not just fast but hard. Continue reading
Are You My Mother?
If Fun Home is a riveting Tolstoyan family tale, then Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother?, is decidedly Freudian in its language and methods: keenly analytic, explanatory, and often clinical. Continue reading
Nancy is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945
What we think we know about Bushmiller’s imbecile epic gets upended by delving in to this much consecutive Nancy. Continue reading
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