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The Maris Review, vol 36
Happy new year. Who can say what 2025 has in store for us, but I know for sure there will be good books. Allow me to shout about my friends for a bit?
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The Maris Review, vol 35
Churning out a bunch of shit products in order to make a quick buck is not the answer to any of the book world’s problems.
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The Maris Review, vol 31
The scale and scope of the right wing book bans are absolutely not the same as the relatively few cases of book bans from the left. Let’s stop with false equivalencies!
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The Maris Review, vol 29
I have no idea what will happen today or tomorrow or next week, but I know that 2025 will have good books (including mine!), and that's not nothing.
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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 25
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The Maris Review, vol 24
I’d like to point out that the book is called Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters; it isn’t called Why Hamas Is Cool and We Support Them.
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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...