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Ebershoff, David (2000), The Danish Girl, Penguin ISBN 9-780143-108399 Usually, the advantage of a novel dealing with a real life character vis-à-vis a nonfiction work, say a biography or a histori…

Sciascia, Leonardo (2000, 1966), To Each His Own, NYRB [Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke] ISBN 978-0-940322-52-3 How is this for coincidence. After finishing To Each His Own, the firs...

[So I asked a friend and frightfully brilliant writer and reader Jake Waalk to write a post on Murakami. I cannot read him in Japanese, and while I have some opinions of his work (none charitable),...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1972), Weep not, Child, Heinemann ISBN 0-435-90007-2 Frantz Fanon once wrote that "decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." And in the work of acclaimed Kenyan writer Ngũg...