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Ferris

Toward the end of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s novel Ferris, Mr. Buoy, the elderly hardware store owner comments, “Yes indeed, there is a way out of

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On Our Way Home From the Revolution

In 2019, five years after Russian troops annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Sonya Bilocerkowycz published her first book, a collection of essays, On Our Way Home

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Reading Genesis

Reading Genesis by the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson is occasionally aggravating, sometimes confounding, but mostly a brilliantly engaging encounter with the text. The opening

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Hawk and Songbird: Poems

I had never heard of Susan Cowger until I was asked to review Hawk and Songbird, her recently published books of poems, and I am

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Deadpool and Wolverine

My daughter gave me a t-shirt, portraying classic white Jesus riding a velociraptor. It has some weird writing about creation and how much fun Jesus

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