Review Mondays: February Preview
Every Monday, Tate Street High Society & Co-Op publishes Three-Sentence Reviews of our favorite books. Check out the books we'll be reviewing in February! [Read More]
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Sophocles’ Antigone, Modernized
Seamus Heaney brings his skill of translation to the ancient Greek tragedy, “Antigone,” [Read More]
Suddenly, A Review (Suddenly, A Knock on the Door: Stories by Etgar Keret)
On the surface, Etgar Keret’s stories aren’t so much stories as they are fabular [Read More]
No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen [Read More]
War Graphics (Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi)
In Marjane Satrapi’s 2004 memoir, Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood, we read about the life [Read More]
Plagiarisms, etc. (The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem)
Artists and their surrogates who fall into the trap of seeking recompense for every possible second [Read More]
What if Shakespeare Grew Up in Iowa?
In the Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s production, the Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa, our [Read More]
On Truthiness and Beauty* (The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal)
How far are essayists allowed to bend the truth before they’re no longer writing nonfiction? In [Read More]
They Is
If you haven’t gotten a chance to read Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Bullet in the [Read More]
Brief, Funny, a Little Bit Frightening (The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders)
George Saunders’ surrealist novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (Riverhead) is a [Read More]
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