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Tag: US

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

1980s, America, Fiction, Novel, speculative fiction, US

Review: March by Geraldine Brooks

A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.

American Civil War, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Pulitzer, Slavery, US

Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.

Apocalypse, Contemporary, Fiction, New York, US

Review: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor continues to explore Black, queer Midwest life.

America, Black writers, Contemporary, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories, US

Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)

Strange, precise and elusive poetry.

America, Emily Dickinson, Poetry, US

Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

It’s about whales.

America, Animals, Classics, Fiction, Novel, US

Review: The Sweetness Of Water by Nathan Harris

A heartfelt story of rebuilding a ruined society.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker prize, Novel, Slavery, US

Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

Black writers, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, US

Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor

An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.

America, Fiction, gay, Man Booker prize, Novel, US

Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.

Fiction, Marriage, New York, Novel, US

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The early 20th Century German biologist Jacob von Uexküll conceived of an animal’s sensory world as its Umwelt. To try to understand an animal’s Umwelt would be like travelling, he said. Ed Yong vividly conjures these other worlds in this majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ interior worlds.
White Noise is Don DeLillo’s version of the US suburban parody-horror, like Edward Scissorhands or Stranger Things or Desperate Housewives. It follows Jack Gladney, a professor and inventor of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college, and his family as they try to extract meaning out of their lives. It’s very droll and often amusing — I particularly enjoyed the parody of post-modernist, post-structuralist disciplines, but also that DeLillo seems to yearn for the meaning these studies invest in things.
I screamed, cackled and winced my way through this delicious collection of short stories.
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