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Friday, July 1, 2011

E. Thomas Finan's "The Other Side": Book Review

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Seven stories explore what happens when life turns out the way we never thought it would. For many characters, this dead-ends into a "t...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Katherine Russell Rich's "Dreaming in Hindi": Book Review

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Four days before 9/11, Rich arrives in Northwest India. She knows a little Hindi, and she figures she needs a break after eight successive j...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Andrzej Stasiuk's "On the Road to Babadag": Book Review

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Roaming the rarely touristed backroads of Central and Eastern Europe over perhaps seven years and accumulating 167 stamps in his Polish pass...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Mo Iubhaile órga

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Nuair a bheidh sé inniu,  beidh tú in ann seo a léamh ar mo  bhreithlá caoga bliain.  Níor chreid mé sin. Scriobhim i mo bhlag de reir an lá...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

"How to be a Proverbs 31 Woman"

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Bibliomancy, if only for those able to read once upon a time, let alone parse the text, was used often to suss out the present and tease div...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

John Joseph Adams' "Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Fiction": Review

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Two-thirds of these cautionary tales have been published the past decade; I opened this having read only six, all of them regarded as clas...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

D.D. Johnston's "Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs": Book Review

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A humorous and poignant novel about anarchism: possibly a first? This young Scots burger-flipper turned street protester tells what happened...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Gabriel Kuhn's "Sober Living for the Revolution": Book Review

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Ian MacKaye of Washington D.C.’s Minor Threat sang in 1981’s “Straight Edge”: “Never want to use a crutch/ I’ve got the straight edge.” Th...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Leanne McCormick's "Regulating Sexuality": Book Review

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As with many academic studies, the contents are narrower than the title and subtitle suggest. Leanne McCormick adapts her doctoral thesis wh...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Plandaí inithe anseo anois!

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Cheannaigh mé glasraí eagsula inné. Thóg mé mo bhean a tí cúpón a úsaid ina plandlann áitiúil. Mar sin, chuaigh Niall agus mé ansin a cruin...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Daniel Hudon's "The Bluffer's Guide to the Universe": Book Review

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If you found the Smartest Guy in the Pub and he turned out not to be Stephen Hawking, he might sound like the author of this spirited 85-pag...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Damon & Naomi's "False Beats & True Hearts": Music Review

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After Galaxie 500, guitarist Dean Wareham led Luna towards increasingly lower volume, channeling the Velvet Underground’s tension into lou...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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