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Category: Essays and Criticism
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Book Review: The Art of Being Normal
My review of The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson, cross-posted from my Goodreads account. This is not the queer YA book you’re looking for. Other people have said most of these points, and I am cis and American and therefore doubly unqualified to speak to trans culture/language in Britain, but these were my main…
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Book Review: The Year 200
This post was originally published on the Massachusetts Review blog. The Year 200 by Augustín de Rojas (Restless Books, 2016) Cuban author Agustin de Rojas’s The Year 200 forces American readers to grapple with their assumptions about Cuba, communism, and the human condition. The novel’s Spanish publication in 1990 and English publication in 2016 line up with potentially…
