Book Reviews
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Deathless: Cat Valente's beautiful fantasy of Stalinist Russia and the Siege of Leningrad
Catherynne M Valente's Deathless is a beautiful Russian fairy-tale set in the Stalinist era, brilliantly conceived and executed. Masha is the youngest of four sisters in Petrograd and, over the years, she has watched the birds come for her sisters. They thump against the windows and fall to the ground and spring up as soldiers and thump again on the door and beg to be wed to the girl in...
Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual For Demons
Purported to be authored by the greatest critic humanity has ever dreamed up, Satan himself, Encyclopædia pushes satire to a new, ferocious level. While the text might not actually originate from another dimension as alleged, it may as well have, so surreal and inspired is Olson's wit. At its core a twisted Twain-ian takedown of modern society, Encyclopædia approaches...
Anarchy through the Ages
Anarchism is usually belittled as hopelessly utopian or mindlessly violent, but, in reality, it's neither. Rather, it's a rich cauldron of social thought from which we've gleaned a lot historically and will likely continue to do so in the decades to come. Peter Marshall has written a tome worthy of this varied history. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism gives...
Vegan Wednesday: Lickin' the Beaters 2
This week is a look at the new "Lickin' the Beaters 2" cookbook with two recipes from it: Easy Chocolate Truffles and Triple Chocolate Pudding. Also, there are excerpts from two recent stories on vegan health benefits and comments on previous posts. Follow-ups to previous episodes I wanted to give an addendum to last week's Vegan Wednesday. In the part about vegan...
The Guardian’s Wikileaks Book Is This Generation’s “All The President’s Men”
Two weeks ago, I reviewed the New York Times’ book: ‘Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy‘. It’s a remarkable work of journalism, combining the paper’s collected reporting on Wikileaks, with editor Bill Keller’s personal account of working with Assange. For my money, Keller’s account was the stand-out highlight of the book –...
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