“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Courtney Cook on Last Friends by Jane Gardam
“Go Read Jane Gardam: On "Last Friends"”
April 18th, 2013
Malcolm Harris on 18% Gray by Zachary Karabashliev
“Heavy Traffic: Zachary Karabashliev’s “18% Gray””
April 16th, 2013
Michael Bible on Rontel by Sam Pink
“Headbutting Cats: Sam Pink’s "Rontel"”
April 15th, 2013
Eric Hayot on Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World and The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Levi-Strauss and Claude Levi-Strauss
“Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”
April 14th, 2013
Rob Horning on Robot Futures by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
“Bot Like Me: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh’s “Robot Futures””
April 14th, 2013
Laurie Winer on Gulp by Mary Roach
“"The Pie Hole Is Mine": Mary Roach's "Gulp"”
April 14th, 2013
Caroline McCracken-Flesher on Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
“The Future is a Celtic Otherworld”
April 14th, 2013Video
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Literary Fiction
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Film
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Nonfiction
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