Blogs in July 2019

Quichotte 24th July 2019

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off...

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Ducks, Newburyport 24th July 2019

Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants,...

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How to Be an Anti-Racist 18th July 2019

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we...

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Inland 16th July 2019

A MAN SEARCHING FOR A HOME HE CAN’T FIND. A WOMAN BOUND TO A HOME SHE CAN’T LEAVE. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life – her husband who has gone in...

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Summer of ’69 12th July 2019

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century . . . Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic island home, but this year it’s not to be. Blair,...

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