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“Critical Revolutionaries is meant to define an older shift, one in which what we still call criticism—evaluation and interpretation—replaced a set of earlier models in the study of English.” —Michael Gorra on Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries https://t.co/ndYGkEadHO

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Kate DiCamillo’s lyrical, goofy, very moving Raymie Nightingale trilogy is marketed toward middle-grade readers, but its bright, buoyant sadness is like Joy Williams; its dark optimism and playful language recall Stevie Smith. https://t.co/PUheZBvH1n https://t.co/Tm8PsijAcj

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Fungi, often microscopic and mostly out of sight, support and sustain nearly all living systems. Zoë Schlanger reviews Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures https://j.mp/3oaoI3w

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“The first story relates the anxieties of childbearing today with grinding realism, the second tries to imagine a state that increasingly seems to belong to science fiction: reproductive freedom.” —@lmlauramarsh https://t.co/W0gfIixRn0

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“Like many of his pioneering generation, Roy Heath stayed in Britain until his death; in his fiction, though, he returned again and again to Guyana.” —Colin Grant on The Murderer https://t.co/vNBbqietvi

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Kerri Arsenault (@KerriArsenault) on Morgan Talty’s short story collection, Night of the Living Rez https://t.co/W7Dp81h32h

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“Seven Steeples is a peculiar and distinctive book: the adventures of two people and two dogs who go feral on a mountain and sometimes shop for tahini. I like that about it.” —Daisy Hildyard on Sara Baume’s latest novel https://t.co/6fjo54bVA8

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In his new book, Samuel Moyn argues that the quest for humane war, whether by deploying smarter weaponry or making new rules, has obscured the more basic task of opposing war itself. https://t.co/ggApAZHAik

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Emmanuel Carrère, writes Adam Thirlwell, “abandoned fiction to explore a new territory of nonfiction or autofiction: an apparent universe of true stories, but one where the subject was still madness or suffering or mania.” https://t.co/eMislQgX4E

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Gabriel Winslow-Yost on recent graphic novels from Nick Drnaso and Tommi Parrish https://t.co/YHMfWaa3MR