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The year’s range of Jewish holidays and celebrations are presented in this repeating, rhyming chant that features key succinct elements for each...Both lovely and eminently useful.

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This little bit of bedtime foolery feels a little incomplete, but it should strike a chord—and it’s far wittier than the similarly themed Go the Fuck to Sleep.

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The era is an interesting choice for a novel, and while the dialogue can veer into cliche, it is heartening to see a broader set of themes and periods tackled by this new generation of African writers.

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...in its portrayal of power structures, it is part of those very contemporary political conversations. It is also a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and of what remains in the aftermath.

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These are surprisingly illiberal themes for Dorfman, a public intellectual and admirable human rights advocate, but he doesn’t appear to have thought out their implications. Much of “Darwin’s Ghosts,” including its plot, its characters and its storytelling voice, would have benefited from more thought.

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A great deal of this material is perplexing, demanding, and obscure, but the author’s beautiful writing is always well worth a visit.

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More troubling is the self-important sexism, as he castigates the “mediocrity of sentimental girls”, and treats the two women in his life as objects to be moulded or abandoned.

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Jones, who was born in Alaska, uses his intimate knowledge of the state, his fondness for the Inupiat people and their traditions, and his eye for politicians’ excruciatingly funny incongruities to produce a well-rounded and appealing portrait of America’s Last Frontier.

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By mixing panels with and without text, Porcellino creates a poetic alternation of words and silences that effectively draws the reader into Thoreau’s point of view.

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...setting public memory against private, chatter against documentation, until The Shape of the Ruins is less an album of stickers than a comprehensive critique of conspiracy aesthetics.

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But Dillon does not shy away from letting us in, obliquely but unmistakably, to his own personal struggles with depression and anxiety. In these more personal passages, he resembles a critic...

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At the heart of the novel is Áine, who, bored with post-divorce life, takes risks that seem “unbelievable” yet mirror those we take every day. Áine’s growing realisation of those risks makes for a sobering life lesson and a gripping read.

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With its minimal development, Crudo perhaps feels a little thin after the satisfying thickness of Laing’s non-fiction...It is story...that pegs open the space of fiction, gives it room to breathe. In Crudo her triumph, rather, is rendering on the page the texture of a very contemporary sensibility.

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It is a forgivable flaw, given the accomplishment of this novel, which has universal appeal in its reflections on love and yet carries a glorious local specificity, even more so than 26a, which was set in the Neasden of Evans’s youth.

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Szu’s angst is sharply drawn, but the sections on Amisa’s first years in Singapore are what lend the novel its particular pathos.

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Iain Galbraith, who has also translated Sebald, gives “River”, and all its “lumber of cumbersome jetsam”, a special English poetry of grunge and grime.

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While this sounds like it might be the set-up for a standard triumph-against-adversity narrative, a fall-and-rise story, Proulx has something considerably stronger, and subtler, in store.

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Later, when Elma is finally castigated for her racial cluelessness by an astronaut of color (“For the love of God, stop talking….I cannot take the protestations of a well-meaning white woman”), readers will find themselves nodding in agreement. The worst tendencies of white feminism—in space.

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Patient X is told in Peace’s trademark fragmented, incantatory style, as distinctive in its way as, say, full-blown Henry James, using repetition, hyperbole and italicised interior monologue to create swirling hallucinatory effects.

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It’s a charming but head-scratching piece poised elusively between the absurd and the profound – a description that applies to most, if not all, the entries.

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