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Visible Man: A Review of T Cooper’s Real Man Adventures

BY ANDREW HERTZBERG At the beginning of 2013 I made two literary resolutions. 1. To read 52 books in 52 weeks. 2. To read books written by female, minority, LGBT, or non-American authors. The idea is not only to increase my reading consumption but to expand my literary comfort zone beyond books written by straight white males. So when I read the first...

From Old Men to Ogres: A Review of Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken

BY JORDAN MAINZER “Haaaaa-lle-luuuuuu-jahhhh.” During the first few weeks of my Freshman year of college, a few people hanging out in my friend’s room starting singing the American Idol favorite. I can’t remember whether it was the Leonard Cohen original, or the Jeff Buckley or John Cale version or a medley of the three. All...

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A Review of Teju Cole, Open City

Teju Cole’s Open City is the most important book I have read to date. I understand this statement has very little bearing, on you, the reader. My credentials are slim, and my knowledge of the gamut of literary history, although unquenchable, does not quite match those of say, a reviewer for the New York Times or...

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Review of The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

Sometimes, late at night, or even in the afternoon, I contemplate the history of language. How it is that humans were able to develop these skills, to communicate all of what is happening inside here and express it in such a way that someone else can understand it...

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A Review of Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory

Admittedly, I knew very little about Michel Houellebecq (pronounced “well-beck”) before I read this novel. I knew he was the main inspiration for Iggy Pop’s underrated 2009 album Preliminaires. I knew he has been criticized for being an intense misogynist and racist. But then again, so was Henry Miller, so I let that slide. I...

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