Reviews

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On Political Violence, the Occult, and Class in Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night
Enriquez utilizes the fantastic and supernatural elements to show us the real horrors of what can happen when the wealthy and privileged gain access to deadly power.

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The Golden Page Turner: A Review of Sterling Karat Gold
Sterling Karat Gold is a sublime, unapologetic queer novel that hits on multiple issues of queer identities, xenophobia, transphobia, and the fascist discourse they face

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Giving Voice Back to Language: Notes on Mirene Arsanios’ The Autobiography of a Language
The personas in Arsanios’ book are troubled by language. Language is both culprit and victim. Language is both problem and solution. Language should pay for what it has done, or what it has allowed to be done in its name.

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Gold Seekers and Fugitives: A Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
To ignore the experience and knowledge of adulthood and to see the world through the eyes of the young is a difficult task for a writer. And yet, in Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Wilson triumphs.

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Moral and Creation Tales: A Review of Bojan Louis’s Sinking Bell
The stories are linked by place, each set in or near Flagstaff, Arizona, and one can sense both Louis’s love for and frustration with the seemingly idyllic mountain town.

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Gothic Roots and Genre Possession: Elizabeth Brooks’ The House in the Orchard
Brooks creates a gothic novel with the same clever and unseen yet unescapable hand as Austen in Northanger Abbey or Bronte in Jane Eyre.

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Schadenfreude: A Review of Trevor Noah’s Loud and Clear Tour
It is like Noah carefully picked up most of the cues of the human condition, at every single rung of his ladder-rise to fame and whipped all of that into his game.

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Love, Loss, and Grief in Tel Aviv, Beirut, and Beyond
By turns bracingly elegiac and deeply, darkly funny, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is a stunning debut.