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Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets …
All Fours is a 2024 novel by Miranda July. The novel follows a 45-year-old perimenopausal woman who, after having an …
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large …
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their …
Not enough stars, really. Superbly written, sharp, humane, haunting, poetic, beautiful, genre-defying. I kept going back and re-reading portions just to spend more time with it.
Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
Downgrading this to 2 stars. A few weeks have gone by and I'm finding myself more and more annoyed at some (many?) of the choices the authors made in the framing of this book.
Giving this 3 stars instead of 2 because reading it seems useful to keep abreast of The Discourse, and it was a reasonably quick read (I reserve 1 star for "didn't want to waste time to finish this").
Despite all the footnotes and references, this book has the superficial vibe of the early Internet "Let's make more Progress with Technology and then we will have Luxury for Everyone!" manifestos, but applied more broadly to also housing, energy production and some nebulous "innovation". It's hard to take seriously as a stance in 2025.
I hope it spurs more conversation and deeper thinking about these themes, but I fear its lack of thoughtfulness about trade-offs might take us …
Downgrading this to 2 stars. A few weeks have gone by and I'm finding myself more and more annoyed at some (many?) of the choices the authors made in the framing of this book.
Giving this 3 stars instead of 2 because reading it seems useful to keep abreast of The Discourse, and it was a reasonably quick read (I reserve 1 star for "didn't want to waste time to finish this").
Despite all the footnotes and references, this book has the superficial vibe of the early Internet "Let's make more Progress with Technology and then we will have Luxury for Everyone!" manifestos, but applied more broadly to also housing, energy production and some nebulous "innovation". It's hard to take seriously as a stance in 2025.
I hope it spurs more conversation and deeper thinking about these themes, but I fear its lack of thoughtfulness about trade-offs might take us in an even worse direction.
