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@pkeough1 reviews two books - both from New York Review Books-- by #Russian authors who left their homeland after the #Ukraine invasion: Maxim Osipov's conventionally Chekhovian "Kilometer 101" and Vladimir Sorokin's ferocious dystopia, "Telluria. https://t.co/ed1rWsIqmQ https://t.co/LepmjGehPx

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"For Ives the adjective nice was a dismissive damning epithet. When I say that Klaus Mäkelä’s new recording of Igor #Stravinsky’s The Firebird and The Rite of Spring is a "nice" one I’m using the term in the Ivesian sense" @jonblumhofer's new #album review https://t.co/nJULIrLJNA

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Peter Walsh on "Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life" (@PrincetonUPress) by @gardnermuseum curators Nathaniel Silver + Diana Seave Greenwald. As befits an official biography, the authors approach their potentially controversial subject with decorum + respect. https://t.co/lpgwDuDOv5

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@ScottMcLennan1 writes that, in his book "The Philosophy of Modern Song," #BobDylan's intent is to be emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us. https://t.co/V9iAi9kJUK

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In this short #book #Weber paints a more nuanced and chilling picture of the factional #wars within the #FLN, vis-à-vis its #Tunisian hosts, and against #France than you’ll find in many #history texts. @kai_maristed reviews "Epic Annette" @PressIndigoThe https://t.co/fVENC6iiRe

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Daniel Lazare finds the argument of "#Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular" (@PrincetonUPress) too fainthearted. https://t.co/aatctCezT5 https://t.co/4ihq4qbGDS

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Roberta Silman reviews two superb works of fiction by #ClaireKeegan. In "Foster" and "Small Things Like These" (both published by @GroveAtlantic) each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences. https://t.co/LYb7tLhGIV https://t.co/XnaaP9MWpA

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@blittlegame finds "Barred"(@BasicBooks) to be illuminating but discouraging: Daniel S. Medwed demonstrates just how astronomical the odds are against anyone in prison who tries to question a guilty verdict, no matter how suspect the conviction. https://t.co/8dTHK56qVm

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@emeek on @Atkinson_Jay's story collection "The Tree Stand" (@LivingstonPress) These are compelling stories about the trials and tribulations of dynamic, working-class characters. https://t.co/I5RepreUpN https://t.co/eNSxNNtqzI

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Host Elizabeth Howard's latest The Short Fuse features a conversation with Valena Beety, author of "Manifesting Justice," and Tasha Mercedes Shelby, calling in on a telephone from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. https://t.co/vlhBKhtyhR