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January 26, 2024

Fire Weather by John Vaillant **** (of 4)

Just as every year is now the hottest on record, so too the number and intensity of wildfires across the planet break annual records for...

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January 26, 2024

A Disappearance in Fiji *** (of 4)

Sargent Akal Singh has been banished to desk duty in Fiji. The year is 1915 and Britain rules its colonies with guile, brutality, and economic...

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January 11, 2024

Free by Lea Ypi *** (of 4)

Lea Ypi is now a distinguished professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She wanted to describe for readers what life in...

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January 11, 2024

The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland *** (of 4)

Historically accurate, this is a fictional recounting of an 1811 fire in Richmond, Virginia that consumed a theater and scores of patrons inside. A young...

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January 11, 2024

Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal *** (of 4)

A group of Russian men have just been conscripted into the Army. They are on the trans-Siberian railroad crossing more than 8 time zones toward...

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January 2, 2024

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah **** (of 4)

Gurnah won the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature and it is evident why in Afterlives, a vision of life on the ground in East Africa...

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December 11, 2023

A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers ** (of 4)

A recently executed body shows up on a beach in Norfolk, Virginia, home to military bases and private military contractors. As the police and a...

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December 11, 2023

Cheap Land Colorado by Tim Conover ** (of 4)

There is a part of the dry flatlands of Colorado called the San Luis Valley where five acres of land can be purchased for a...

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November 23, 2023

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton *** (of 4)

The premise is simple enough. A guerilla environmental group in New Zealand, calling itself Birnham Wood, illegally plants gardens on vacant properties. As you would...

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November 23, 2023

Goodbye, Eastern Europe *** (of 4)

It is an enormous undertaking to try and explain the people, cultures, and kaleidoscopic national identities of a region as large as Eastern Europe. Jacob...

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