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New and Selected: August 2008
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Something to Tell You: A Novel. A review of Hanif Kureishi's novel. By the end of the novel, when the London Underground is shaken by suicide bombers, we are already expecting an explosion. The tension that Kureishi has built in the secret lives of his characters, the social unrest of Britain at war and the paranoia of a violent past cannot be settled with anything less than cataclysmic. Something to Tell You. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Something to Tell You: A Novel.
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New and Selected: Wandering Star and Onitsha
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Wandering Star and Onitsha. 2 novels by Jean-Marie Gustave LeClézio. Reviewed for The Scrambler. As can be expected, LeClézio’s writing reflects this nomadic element of his life. In Wandering Star. The last of his novels to be translated into English, he. Grapples with displacement and loss. "Is it ever really possible to retrieve what you've left behind? View my complete profile. Wandering Star and Onitsha.
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New and Selected: January 2008
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On The Boards Performance Blog. Posted in Performance Blog. Friday, January 11th, 2008. Radiohole’s Fluke was created from an improvisation activity the cast called Bible-Ear, in which a performer is expected to simultaneously listen to and recite back the recorded book playing in his headphones while holding a conversation with a person who is unable to hear the recording. The result in this case is the wild, physically rigorous and darkly hilarious riff on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
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New and Selected: June 2008
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Book review for Seattle Conscious Choice. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. Edited by Bill McKibben, Forward by Al Gore. My mother read aloud to me when I was a child, but not from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Al Gore's mother did. In his forward to this new collection, Gore recalls hearing Carson's story and how strongly it influenced him. Writers affect people and people affect change, which is more valuable than the influence of elected officials, he says. View my complete profile.
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New and Selected: July 2008
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Do you know who picked the cocoa beans for your chocolate bar? Historically, beans picked by Mayans were treated like currency and were a deeply valued food. Off’s book provides a gruesome history of international chocolate trade, but she also offers encouragement that grass-roots activism and purchase voting for Fair Trade products can make a difference. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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New and Selected: April 2008
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Man in the Middle. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Colors North West Magazine, Gumbo April 2008. It happens all over the country. A neglected neighborhood suddenly becomes prime development property. Lifelong residents are expelled to make room for new homes and businesses. It also happens in Dinaw Mengestu’s latest novel, which chronicles the complexity of a changing neighborhood through the eyes of a man on the margins. 61550; Kristianne HUNTSBERGER. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Man in the Middle.
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New and Selected: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur. A review of Halima Bashir's memoir. By now, we all know something about the deadly conflict in Darfur. We have seen television broadcasts and documentaries or read. Return to The Scrambler, Issue 22. View my complete profile. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfu.
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New and Selected: March 2009
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Wandering Star and Onitsha. 2 novels by Jean-Marie Gustave LeClézio. Reviewed for The Scrambler. As can be expected, LeClézio’s writing reflects this nomadic element of his life. In Wandering Star. The last of his novels to be translated into English, he. Grapples with displacement and loss. "Is it ever really possible to retrieve what you've left behind? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Wandering Star and Onitsha.
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New and Selected: September 2008
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur. A review of Halima Bashir's memoir. By now, we all know something about the deadly conflict in Darfur. We have seen television broadcasts and documentaries or read. Return to The Scrambler, Issue 22. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfu.
