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Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Pointless Revolution! - The Economics of Doing Whatever You Want
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The Last Summer of Hair
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The Last Child of the 20th Century
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Three Visions Of Olympia
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I choose to invest in rainbows
Why I refuse to jump on the anti-immigrant bandwagon
Words & images © Paul Ransom
Humans have long been migratory. For multiple millennia we have fanned out across continents; as explorers, conquerors, fortune seekers, and in flight for life, liberty and opportunity. When the planet was less crowded and the distances greater, inter-tribal frictions may have been less frequent, though likely no less
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| I cannot say how Jodi Picoult writes. However, if she is anything like me, the creation of this book must have been an ordeal. The multi-character perspectives, (all orbiting around trauma and riven by ethical conundrum), are shot through with a psyc ...more | |
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| Naomi Novik’s ‘The Summer War’ is fantasy 1.01. Pre-modern setting, knights, swordplay, magic, heroic princesses, and a ‘fable-like’ telling. However, into this formula she has injected a few spices. At best, this novella has the feel of a Sophoclean ...more | |
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| This novel began life as a play in 2011, and there are traces of this history scattered throughout Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s ‘Before The Coffee Gets Cold’. The prose often reads like stage direction. Blunt, merely instructive. There is also too much reca ...more | |
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| Imagine a mildly pleasant Sunday night dramedy. BBCish. Professional, no obvious flaws but…neither here nor there. Characters you never manage to care for, narrative arcs that are well shaped but ho-hum, and an ending that’s only fractionally removed ...more | |
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| For context, I came to this volume in a spirit of experiment. Try something different, etc. Having not read a ‘comic’ since my ‘Asterix’ phase in the late 1970s, I thought this might be an interesting way to dive into ‘The Art of War’. Yes, it was in ...more | |
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| A book as intimate as this is hard to ‘review’ in the usual way, if only because it could scan as a critique of the author herself. Or worse, as a snipe about mental illness and therapy. Indeed, as Baek Se-hee hints, she and her book could be dismiss ...more | |
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Paul Ransom
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Hyper Foreigner: miniMAG Issue176 (miniMAGpress Anthology)
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Think I might have a story in this vol as well. :)
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Hyper Foreigner: miniMAG Issue176 (miniMAGpress Anthology):
"So full disclaimer first, i have a story in this issue ("Cool Kids Die Young" on page 26) so i might be a little biased.
Minimag continues its remarkable run of presenting new and interesting writers to the public. If you are looking for a new short " Read more of this review » |
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