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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl is called a novel, though Jen herself makes clear that it began as something closer to memoir. Writing about her fraught relationship with her late mother, she realized how much of her mother’s inner life—and early history—was ...more | |
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| Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood is impossible to read in isolation. The story it tells—of Argentina’s military dictatorship, its campaign of terror, and the systematic theft of children—falls into a grim historical line that run ...more | |
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So much contemporary literary fiction seems to believe it must reinvent the form in order to be taken seriously. Benjamin Wood’s Seascraper quietly ignores that impulse—and is all the better for it. This is a novel that does what novels have always do ...more |
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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