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December 31, 2009

January 2010 issue

December 31, 2009/ Open Letters Monthly

Lights by Rachel Burgess

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January 2010
December 31, 2009

"Ranvaik Owns This Box"

December 31, 2009/ Freydis Skaar

Is it possible to defend a group of people who gleefully made rape and torture a part of their lives? Freydis Skaar reviews a new history of the Vikings and finds its author, Robert Ferguson, doing something very close to that.

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December 31, 2009/ Freydis Skaar/
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January 2010
December 31, 2009

A Celtic Mage’s Muses

December 31, 2009/ Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz interviews Forward Prize-winning poet and translator Robin Robertson, whose newest collection, The Wrecking Light, will be published this year

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December 31, 2009/ Marc Vincenz/
Poetry
January 2010, Poetry
December 31, 2009

Blast and Scatteration

December 31, 2009/ John Madera

John Madera reviews Michael Leong's e.s.p. and recounts the scramble of names, idioms, puns, and wild associations he finds in the poems

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December 31, 2009/ John Madera/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
January 2010, literary criticism, Poetry
December 31, 2009

The Why of the Beholder

December 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue

Can Fantagraphics' Spectrum series of contemporary fantasy art yield the same sort of enjoyment as a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Steve Donoghue looks into the newest collection.

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December 31, 2009/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
Book Review, January 2010, Steve Donoghue
December 31, 2009

Adventure.exe

December 31, 2009/ Phillip A. Lobo

Phillip A. Lobo leaps from the classic 1970s game Zork to Andrew Hussie's webcomic MS Paint Adventures in his nostalgia-inducing discussion of the allures of interactive fiction computer games

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December 31, 2009/ Phillip A. Lobo/
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January 2010
December 31, 2009

"Did you en-joy the de-mon-stra-tion?"

December 31, 2009/ Lianne Habinek

Boilerplate traveled the world at the turn of the twentieth century in attempt to dissuade humans from their many wars. Finally, his biography (can such things be?) is revealed, and Lianne Habinek reveals its astonishing contents

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December 31, 2009/ Lianne Habinek/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, January 2010, literary criticism
December 31, 2009

Over the Old Elms

December 31, 2009/ Hugh Seames

It's often forgotten, or ignored, that China has a four-thousand-year-old history as rich and varied as any Western civilization. Hugh Seames hopes that John Keay's immense new book will change some misperceptions about the Middle Kingdom

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December 31, 2009/ Hugh Seames/
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January 2010
December 31, 2009

Vampires Are SO Last Year

December 31, 2009/ Kristin Brower Walker

Lauren Kate's new young adult book Fallen is getting the full Twilight treatment, YouTube trailer and all. Kristin Brower Walker looks into what the book is about beyond all that promotional blitz

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December 31, 2009/ Kristin Brower Walker/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, January 2010, literary criticism
December 31, 2009

The Long and Winding Road

December 31, 2009/ Megan Kearns

Jonathan Safran Foer is not the first, but is certainly the most famous, to investigate the ethics of eating animals. Megan Kearns studies both the style and the substance of his argument, with an eye to his less acknowledged allies in vegetarianism

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December 31, 2009/ Megan Kearns/
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January 2010
December 31, 2009

The Wonder of Their Ways

December 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr

Two books by Jeff Mynott and Colin Tudge explore why it is that birds have such a hold on our hearts. Honoria St. Cyr adds her observations - on the books and on those little marvels around the feeder.

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December 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr/
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January 2010
December 31, 2009

Poetry: Solitude

December 31, 2009/ Tomas Tranströmer

a poem by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Robertson

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December 31, 2009/ Tomas Tranströmer/
Poetry
January 2010, Poetry
December 31, 2009

It’s A Mystery: “The deity who kills for pleasure will also heal”

December 31, 2009/ Irma Heldman

Louise Penny’s newest novel, The Brutal Telling, plunges Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the star of the famed homicide department of the Sûreté du Quebec, into the darkest, most disturbing case of his career. Irma Heldman goes north of the border.

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December 31, 2009/ Irma Heldman/
Features
Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, January 2010, mystery fiction
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