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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

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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

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"In poem after poem, paradox, contradiction, and intuitive insight become her favored forms of protest." Forrest Gander reviews Brenda Hillman's poetry collection "In a Few Minutes Before Later." https://t.co/3XhVJiec6u https://t.co/XexhDetsGc

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“For Trump’s base, life without personal security and the preservation of worthy insiders in the face of teeming outsiders is the equivalent of total planetary collapse.” —John Hibbing in "The Securitarian Personality." Mark Oprea's review: https://t.co/vwxf0G43iF https://t.co/sh2pN7cSDM

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"He is a big thinker and a global writer—it is one of the great features of this book." @VChangPoet and @deanrader consider “Best Barbarian,” a collection of poems by Roger Reeves. https://t.co/0JkKaxoadB https://t.co/O7avnroqUl

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"'The First Populist' offers a complex portrait of Jackson, one that escapes the simplifications of polemic or hagiography." @DanielGullotta reviews David S. Brown’s new biography, “The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pragmatic-and-passionate-cunning-and-callous-on-david-s-browns-the-first-populist-the-defiant-life-of-andrew-jackson/ https://t.co/3Q7NDSkENm

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“Most readers, I would think, will drop the novel in their laps with a jolt of self-recognition. What an indictment of our politics of care, which can never throw off the shackles of self-interest.“ Toral Jatin Gajarawala on Peter C. Baker’s “Planes.” https://t.co/BVLGUVuNey

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On this week's #LARBRadioHour, author @nellzink joins Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to talk about her latest novel, "Avalon." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/nell-zinks-avalon/ https://t.co/sQgNTzjO8t

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"'The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State' takes on the turbulent 500-year history of one of Southeast Asia’s least understood and most unappreciated countries." Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (@luisitalt) reviews Philip Bowring’s newest. https://t.co/UbUy0lUV0D https://t.co/JE7YUj5L0h

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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