LUCY ELLMANN’S DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT
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REVIEW: MAX DECHARNE’S VULGAR TONGUES: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF ENGLISH SLANG
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REVIEW: ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
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HAN KANG’S HUMAN ACTS
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JD VANCE’S HILLBILLY ELEGY
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INDONESIA: ROBBED, RAPED, ABUSED
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015Illustration from Indonesian edition of the book. The blurb for Eka Kurniawan's Beauty Is A Wound: "Indonesia's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million 'Communists,' followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule." All wrapped in an ...
FATHERS AND THEIR UNGRATEFUL SONS
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015These brats make you want to say 10 Our Fathers. By Charles R Larson. How can you not admire a writer who - after he wins the Nobel Prize (2010), after he's written 20 or so earlier books, after he's supposedly reached his peak - writes still another gripping novel, reminiscent ...
MALAYA DURING WORLD WAR II
Saturday, December 15th, 2012Malaysian Tan Twan Eng's The Garden Of Evening Mists (shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize award) gets the thumbs up from Charles R Larson, who says that the book levitates above the surface reality of war and its terrible atrocities and floats, hauntingly, like a Japanese lantern up into ...
CHINESE GEEK SHOW
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012Writer Yan Lianke manages to sneak Lenin's Kisses past the Chinese censors, even as it looks at the cult of the dictator; the abuse of power on simple villagers; while Chinese leaders employ geek shows as weapons of mass distraction. By Charles R Larson. Much of Yan Lianke’s epic novel, Lenin’s ...
SWEDEN’S SEXUAL DYSTOPIA
Thursday, August 26th, 2010The mistranslation of the Stieg Larsson's first volume (originally Men Who Hate Women) is most revealing. In all three of his books, women are raped, tortured, violently abused, and murdered by men who often live "normal" public lives. When it comes to women and sex in Sweden, it's hell on ...