Tag: Christina Ghent
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Weird Pig, a novel by Robert Long Foreman, reviewed by Christina Ghent
Have you ever met pig that is able to talk? How about one that is able to walk upright on two legs? Or how about a pig who is unable to control his urges to steal cars, drink beer, and commit murder? Weird Pig is able to do all of that and more. In fact,…
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A History of My Brief Body, essays by Billy-Ray Belcourt, reviewed by Christina Ghent
History has traditionally been written by those who have the privilege to write it. Archives are created and maintained by those same people in power who can write their own narrative and the narrative for those they have conquered. Monarchies seeking to expand their power colonized places in the name of the throne and declared…
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The Fabulous Dead, Andriana Minou’s un-historical flash fictions from KERNPUNKT Press, reviewed by Christina Ghent
The iconic and celebrated historical composers, astronauts, actresses, philosophers, and authors among a host of others are brought back to life within Andriana Minou’s short story collection, The Fabulous Dead. Their lives are deconstructed in an often humorous manner that forces us to consider the possibilities that history might not have gotten it exactly right.…
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Museum of Stones, a novel by Lynn Lurie, reviewed by Christina Ghent
In the novel Museum of Stones, we follow an unnamed narrator through the journey of what motherhood is really like. And in her third work, Lynn Lurie masterfully depicts this chaotic, frightening, loving, and sometimes neurotic life of being a mother to an extraordinary son. Through the unnamed narrator, Lurie brings us into the mind…
