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Drew’s 2025 Year in Books
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2022
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2022
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January/February 2023
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Brute: Stories of Dark Desire, Masculinity, & Rough Trade
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Stories About Penises: An Anthology of Short Stories & Poetry
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Cyber Smut: Short Stories and Poetry
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2020
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Periodic Boyfriends
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You're Pretty Gay
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Infinity Standing Up
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Fassbinder: His Movies, My Poems
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Publick Spanking
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| Three interconnected short stories comprise Nobel laureate Han Kang's "The Vegetarian." The first concerns a woman whose sudden refusal to eat meat turns out to be an early symptom of severe insanity; the second finds her videographer brother-in-law ...more | |
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| This Isak Dinesen collection reveals the vast difference between a skillful short story author and a master storyteller. Dinesen falls in the latter camp, an astonishing crafter of tales who knows how to lure the reader with a fabulist opener than ho ...more | |
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| The opening line is delicious: "Dr. Weiss, at 40, knew that her life had been ruined by literature." Or as Brookner puts it later: "Better a bad winner than a good loser. Balzac had taught her that too." For anyone whose worldview is shaped in part b ...more | |
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| Zara Chowdhary's story is one worth reading. As a young Muslim girl growing up in a region in India where people of her faith were slaughtered in the early oughts, she comes to this memoir with a deep sense of purpose; it's impossible not to be moved ...more | |
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| When one thinks of class conflict, one tends to think of Rich versus Poor but that age-old battle is hardly restricted to the highest and lowest in society. Tash Aw's lovely gay coming-of-age novel (set in Malaysia) details the schism between two fam ...more | |
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| This slim volume repackages two thematically complementary, previously published Hannah Arendt essays: one from "Crises of the Republic," her last book published in her lifetime; the other from her posthumous collection "Between Past and Future." In ...more | |
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| In his tragedy "Fabrication," Pier Paolo Pasolini does nothing short of turn Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" on its head. For if the original play centers a protagonist who unintentionally killed his own father as a way to carve a place for himself in the w ...more | |
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| Despite working at a bookstore, I'm long defaulted to the library because I recognize that most books don't beckon me back after I read them. Priscilla Becker's "Internal West" is an exception, so now I'll be purchasing a copy after the fact. This de ...more | |
