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Best Books of 2014
BEST BOOKS OF 2014 by Clarence V. Reynolds Freelance editor and literary arbiter Clarence V. Reynolds reads five books per day, or was that per month.
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Best Books of 2011
NONFICTION Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 By Caryl Phillips The New Press In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written,
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The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle Spiegel & Grau Reviewed by D. Scot Miller Victor LaValle’s Big Machine, opens with a look at Ricky Rice, a middle-aged porter in a bus depot in Utica, New York. It’s 2005, and the world is about to go broke. Ricky is a downtrodden sanitation worker with a shady…
