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The Maris Review, vol 34
My favorite audiobooks of 2024, my least anticipated books of 2025, and more...
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The Maris Review, vol 33
I stand by the fact that end-of-year lists are meaningless, and yet. We live in a specific media landscape. So...
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The Maris Review, vol 28
"I look at the faces of the sallow and entirely uninspiring so-called media elite and I yearn for any glimpse of optimism that doesn’t involve the proliferation of right wing platforms."
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The Maris Review, vol 27
You will either come away from this with new insight into the quagmire of contemporary book coverage, or you will simply see me as an overthinker extraordinaire with not enough hobbies.
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The Maris Review, vol 26
"Books that craft Jewish characters to embody the endurance of the human spirit in all its nobility are, in fact, denying these characters’ humanity." --Ilana Masad on Holocaust Beach Reads
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The Maris Review, vol 23
"What we demand of authors who cross racial or cultural lines is that they do so with the adequate amount of skill and respect." Yep, Jeanine Cummins has a new novel.
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The Maris Review, vol 22
I could surely choose 11 titles published solely by PRH in 2024 and have a pretty stellar year-end list. AND THAT IS A PROBLEM.
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The Maris Review, vol 21
It’s not new that successful books are copied many times over to try to capitalize on a trend, like how we saw a zillion sadistic billionaire romance novels post- 50 Shades of Grey. But still...
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The Maris Review, vol 20
More and more it seems that Neil Gaiman has been a textbook case of the kind of Bad Man for whom sexual assault and abuse of power is never just a one-off or even a five-off event.
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The Maris Review, vol 19
I don’t want to yuck anyone else’s yum, but I will certainly watch other people go “what the fuck!?” to those yums.
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The Maris Review, vol 18
There are so many Big Books coming out and there is Trump saying bonkers shit all the time and everyone is already so overwhelmed.