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"'River Spirit' is a story about how within the contingencies that birth a revolution lies dormant the means of its own undoing." Farah Bakaari (@farahbakaari) reviews Leila Aboulela’s “River Spirit,” a historical epic set in 19th-century Sudan. https://t.co/LuXJGgnHKI https://t.co/hXOyJJnZLX

River Spirit

Susan McCabe reviews Jody Gladding’s “I entered without words” and Forrest Gander’s “Your Nearness”: "Gander delves far into grief to love what is yet alive." https://t.co/YEdZoKjZ6i https://t.co/638PE72Fkt

Your Nearness

"Erpenbeck writes with such muscle and snap that she can stop a reader in their tracks even as, miraculously, her prose rhythms draw them on." John Domini (@DavveroDomini) reviews German author Jenny Erpenbeck's newly translated novel “Kairos." https://t.co/ymgZxE2wEr https://t.co/o0xQOWjrBw

National Book Award

World Literature - Germany - 21st Century

Kairos

.@kbjosephs reviews Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s “Bitstreams”: "Kirschenbaum engages the reader with witty asides, tangential flights of fancy, and extended fictional examples that help concretize the abstractness of digital archaeology." https://t.co/mT94Mt1SFv https://t.co/CuHPb4DU0b

Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

“The parallels between Mohsin Hamid’s 'The Last White Man' and George S. Schuyler’s 1931 satire 'Black No More' reveal lessons still unlearned.” @mkrwrt on the parallels between "The Last White Man" and "Black No More." https://t.co/vWE3ZiYDR3 https://t.co/LwGxGJQUZC

The Last White Man

"Winer’s defense of Hammerstein’s essential place in American cultural history rings true, even if he occupies a very different place today compared to his own time." Tim Riley reads Laurie Winer's "Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical." https://t.co/Qtkm8WOESz

Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical

"If Tokarczuk makes a decent comparison for the author’s treatment of history, the freewheeling eroticism of this latest Erpenbeck recalls older European models such as Marguerite Duras." John Domini (@DavveroDomini) reviews Jenny Erpenbeck's “Kairos.” https://t.co/ymgZxE1YOT

The new Bob Dylan biography by @GreilMarcusNET combines "the most candid sort of memoirist prose with truly inspired commentary," wrote @JoyceCarolOates – @GreilMarcusNET discusses “Folk Music" on @thenation podcast w/ @JonWiener1 https://t.co/84BRX3FxqI @yalepress https://t.co/ni0Bji14Ot

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Juana María Rodríguez (@RadioRodriguez) joins @EHNewman on this week's #LARBRadioHour to discuss her latest book, "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex," exploring the proliferating and often incongruous meanings of the term “puta." https://t.co/KsIGaZirob https://t.co/FTXpA1VyZn

Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American Studies

Human Sexuality (see also Psychology - Human Sexuality)

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