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by Ann Kjellberg, editor   How a bookstore gave a town a literary movement and a thriving future
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Two books about life in Black religious communities—Rastafarian and Nation of Islam—command attention both as literature and as windows into rarely seen…
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Notebook: (1) Who Killed the Humanities?
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Review: Tracy Daugherty on Tim O‘Brien
Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, has always smudged the boundaries between fact and fiction. His new book, appearing in a moment…
Diary: Thea Lenarduzzi, (2) Language Families
I remember the lombardo boys who hung around in the park behind the shopping mall, talking in their low yodelling vowels and clipped nasalities. To…
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Diary: Thea Lenarduzzi, (1) Language Families
To hear my grandfather speak was to fall through time, back to around 180 BC when the Carni, a mountain-dwelling Celtic tribe, came down to the northern…
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Review: Anakana Schofield on Clarice Lispector
Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector had a regular newspaper column in which she chatted with readers and considered everyday life. Anakana Schofield…
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Notebook: (3) Heartland Vistas
by Ann Kjellberg, editor. Are those who bring us books supposed to represent all things or passionately advocate their truth? A PEN report & big…
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Notebook: (2) Heartland Vistas
Bookstore as refuge; bookstore as invitation.
Notebook: (1) Heartland Vistas
by Ann Kjellberg, editor There is something special about travelling into the middle of the nation, where booksellers far from the overhyped coasts are…
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