Written with Will MillardPublished by Witness Books, 2025, 312 pages “When I was young, if you had granted me one wish, I probably would have chosen to be invisible. If I was invisible, I rationalized, then I could get as close as possible to the earth’s most elusive creatures. Moreover, I could comfortably evade all …
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Translated from Spanish by Maureen ShaughnessyPublished by Charco Press, 2024, 188 pages. Original version published in 2021. “So then, why did you come back every summer? Do you like to suffer? Why didn’t you just stay home? There, in Buenos Aires, dying of heat. Ah. No. That’s right—it’s because you couldn’t. You didn’t have anyone …
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Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist. He has written six crime novels featuring Vish Puri (The Case of the Missing Servant, 2009; The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing, 2010; The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, 2012; The Case of the Love Commandos, 2013; The Case of the Reincarnated Client, 2019; …
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Published by Catapult, 2020, 218 pages “We continue to slip in and out of society like ghosts in the night, connecting our hearts and minds with the land and the many tribal peoples who cross our paths every single day, carrying the heavy thread of the prayers of hundreds of individuals. We run through landscapes …
Continue reading Spirit Run—A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land: Noé Álvarez
Published by Random House / Mantle / Picador, 2024, 303 pages “My name is James. I wish I could tell my story with a sense of history as much as industry. I was sold when I was born and then sold again. ... I can tell you that I am a man who is cognizant …
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