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April 2020

Finding What is Lost in C. J. Tudor’s The Other People

  • Author Evan Mortimer
  • PublishedApril 24, 2020April 24, 2020

The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20 – $27 (Hardcover) There is something relentlessly engrossing about a mystery. The suspense, the shock,…

Sunday Staff Picks: April 19th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedApril 19, 2020April 19, 2020

Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t by Malcolm Harris I picked up Sh*t is F*cked Up and Bullsh*t for fairly obvious reasons. Released less than…

Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus

  • Author Sofia Montrone
  • PublishedApril 17, 2020April 20, 2020
  • 2 Comments on Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus

Severance / Ling Ma / Picador, 05/2019 – $17 (Paperback) The routine has become automatic. In the mornings I stand bleary-eyed at the counter and…

Sunday Staff Picks: April 5th

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedApril 6, 2020April 6, 2020

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Quan Barry’s latest novel, set in a Massachusetts coastal town, delivers witches, field hockey, and late 1980s cultural…

Landscape from a Train by Anja Chivukula

  • Author thecolumbiareview
  • PublishedApril 4, 2020April 3, 2020

Red, all the olive fields were limned with ruddy gold, laden branches sprouting furrows, tangled boughs that carved them- selves in gaps between the morning,…

Arcana, Alive: Anne Serre’s The Fool

  • Author Sam Wilcox
  • PublishedApril 1, 2020April 1, 2020

The Fool and Other Moral Tales / Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson / New Directions, 09/19 – $15 (Paperback) Repulsive, violent, confounding: that’s how…

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