carey b Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Tahar Ben Jelloun — This Blinding Absence of Light https://t.co/aAqUqL10zt

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Nabokov, one of literature’s greatest stylists, is at the height of his powers in Lolita ... In Nabokov’s tightening, glittering web, Humbert is seducing the reader in the same way he’s working to abuse Dolores: gaining trust through charm, in pursuit of disgusting designs.

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The New Yorker writer ... understands that he adores something that has the capacity to both save his life and kill him; the ocean is at once “the object of your deepest desire and adoration,” he writes, and “like an uncaring God, endlessly dangerous, powerful beyond measure.”

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the book unfolds scene after scene of agony, each funnier and more morose than the last. Being a sports fan in Hornby’s world is essentially an exercise in despondency—any league or tournament is set up so that only one team can ever really win.

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In the new (fiftieth!) issue of the @JoburgReview, I write about Khadija Bajaber’s The House of Rust, and explore what her Mombasa means to her, and what her writing means to us, Kenyan writers & readers https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/tales-from-mombasa-carey-baraka-speaks-to-khadija-abdalla-bajaber-about-her-award-winning-debut-novel-the-house-of-rust/

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And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/t-magazine/book-stylists-instagram-influencers.html

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And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://t.co/Gtit68m0R2

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