Seven Stories
The Siege and Fall of Troy
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A re-issue of Robert Graves’ retelling of the Homeric myths is always welcome, and the new introduction by Dan-El Padilla Peralta makes the ...Read Review
Shadow of Arms
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“Disneyland in a vast tin warehouse” is the description of the American PX, the focal point for graft and corruption during the Vietnam ...Read Review
Yudl and Other Stories
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Layle Silbert grew up in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jews. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in literary magazines and in ...Read Review
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
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I’m sure Martha Long’s book was liberating for her to write, but it was tough for me to read. I wanted ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
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In the 1970s, a handwritten manuscript of some 4,000 pages (of which only a small portion was previously known) came to light in the ...Read Review
Haymarket
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In 1886 a bomb killed seven policemen during an eight-hour day demonstration in Haymarket Square in Chicago. The subsequent conviction of eight anarchists for ...Read Review
The Incantation Of Frida K.
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This is a fictional autobiography of Frida Kahlo, the Surrealist painter who died at 46 in 1954. While on her deathbed, Frida recalls the major ...Read Review
