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All of life in one day; all lives in one novel?

By Kate Blackwood / February 7, 2021

“Woolf was among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them.”

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Book Review: Let Your Mind Run

By Kate Blackwood / December 31, 2020

In “Let Your Mind Run,” Deena Kastor counts the mind as an essential part of a runner. Using her own story, she considers the power of the mind to motivate the body.

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Book Review: Jack

By Kate Blackwood / December 21, 2020

He puts on his charming self, his dark self, his lost self. But Della is not the sort to be charmed.

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Book review: Looking for life in all the wrong places

By Kate Blackwood / November 27, 2020

At the core of “The Overstory” is a translation problem; the trees are speaking, but we humans are not listening anymore.

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