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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.
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Gripping and meticulous, Ceps work doesnt make us choose between fidelity and style.
What if you could write about a corporate patriarchal dystopia without recourse to mythologies or bonnets?
What if you could just amp up the way we live now?
Hosts, for the wealthy.
But the creepiness builds so subtly, sorealistically, thatThe Farmnever feels preachy, just terrifyingly true.
Ma surreally collapses past and present, undoing Xis work with every ironic reversal and juxtaposition.
The style and soul are what matter here; Porters is utterly unique.
Taylor was a sociopathic manipulator and possibly a murderer.
His portrait of her is unflinching; so is his portrayal of the demagogues who profited from her story.