“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
Gregory Leon Miller on Erasure, Assumption, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, For Her Dark Skin and A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett and James Kincaid
January 23rd, 2012
D. Charles Whitney on Half Empty by David Rakoff
July 22nd, 2011
Barry Schwartz on The Myths of Happiness, Love 2.0 and Happy Money by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Barbara Fredrickson, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
“Getting Happier: Three Books on Happiness”
March 25th, 2013
McKenzie Wark on Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
“A More Interesting Grief: On Andrey Platonov”
January 11th, 2013
Adam Plunkett on Harm and Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys by Hillary Gravendyk and D.A. Powell
February 22nd, 2012
Adriana E. Ramirez on Have You Seen Marie? and Another Insane Devotion by Sandra Cisneros and Peter Trachtenberg
“Look at These Cats!: Two Books on Felines”
April 9th, 2013
Patrick Millikin on He Died with His Eyes Open, Dead Man Upright, The Devil's Home on Leave, I Was Dora Suarez and How the Dead Live by Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond, Derek Raymond and Derek Raymond
“Doors Closing Slowly: Derek Raymond's Factory Novels”
April 18th, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Headstone by Ken Bruen
“The Criminal Kind: Ken Bruen”
March 22nd, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Hell on Church Street by Jake Hinkson
January 23rd, 2012
Steven G. Kellman on Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson
January 17th, 2012
Mark London Williams on Hero by Mike Lupica
July 14th, 2012
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