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Black in White America
Black in White America, Leonard Freed (Getty Publications) $29.95. Black in White America is a photo diary of Black American life in the 1960s. Reading Black Like Me in my early twenties revealed to me...
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Molossus.co Presents!
Continuing a great tradition of collaboration with the Silver Lake Jubilee, Molossus is proud to invite its readers to the Molossus.co Presents AZTEX+PORN+STALIN, featuring Boris Dralyuk, Katherine...
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Australia Briefly
[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””] Sand, Robert Drewe & John Kinsella (Fremantle Press, distr. by Independent Publishers Group) $27.95 An unusual—and unusually satisfying—book, which, like...
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Masochism is Another Form of Elitism
The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, Pascal Bruckner, tr. Steven Rendall (Princeton UP) $26.95 Pascal Bruckner comes out swinging hard in his The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western...
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Fork Over the Gold: Yuri Rytkheu’s Chukchi Bible
The Chukchi Bible, Yuri Rytkheu, tr. from the Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (Archipelago) $16 For all their smug racism and unmotivated cruelty, Russian Chukcha jokes—the rough equivalent of the...
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Kwanini?’s Tiny Coups
The Kwani? Trust is Kenya’s premiere literary institution, anchored by their flagship publication, the omnibus journal Kwani?, roughly translatable from the Swahili as “What’s up?” Their reduplicative...
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
The black olive tree is gone. But it didn’t even hit me until winter when I was back in Louisville, Kentucky. In November I went to Juchitán, Oaxaca for the first time in order to see the places that...
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At Chora, I purchased the inaugural issue of The Istanbul Review, edited by Hande Zapsu Watt, now available at many government-owned tourism sites in greater Istanbul. The 200+ page glossy includes...
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ECHOLOLIA, or an Interview with a Ghost
The following essay comes from Contributing Editor John Mateer’s forthcoming collection of poems Unbeliever, or ‘The Moor’ (Shearsman). – … – It has occurred to me that there were several moments that...
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Editors Harold Abramowitz & Andrea Quaid featured an essay by molossus editor David Shook on Jacket2, as part of their series A Primer, “a how-to text as well as an archival source of text and...
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