Nihilistic Tragedy/ Ironic Comedy: Kathleen Graber’s Book Five (The Eternal City)
These are the kinds of things that can barely be dreamt up:
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The Weight of Freedom, a Great and Terrible Burden: James Baldwin’s Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
Poetry, Memory and Redemption in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
On Music and Indians in James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues
Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus: A Delightful Trick of the Light
Hephzibah Grace 