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The Rumpus Interview with Shalom Auslander
Shalom Auslander’s work, like the best satire, is a gleeful finger in the eye of various moronic pieties and general demagoguery. He has written a book of short stories, Beware of God, in which God is...
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In Jeff Sharlet’s latest book about religion in America, Sweet Heaven When I Die, “religion” is something protean and heterodox.Sweet Heaven When I Die, a book of journalistic essays by reporter Jeff...
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The Truth about Marie, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
The title of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s most recent novel, The Truth About Marie, is an impish wink and a nudge to the reader. The plot, such as it is, involves a man describing his ex-girlfriend...
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If Frantz Fanon had written War of the Worlds, he might have produced something like Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson, which uses an alien invasion story to grapple with the violent history of colonialism...
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