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“THE world is kept alive only by heretics,” Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote in
an essay in 1919, not long before his own work was banned and he was
branded a heretic by the Soviet authorities.
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The Man Who Could Fly And Other Stories Rudolfo Anaya University of Oklahoma Press: 200 pp., $19.95 *
RUDOLFO ANAYA, whose first novel, “Bless Me, Ultima,” is
considered a cornerstone of Chicano literature, has been writing and
publishing stories for more than 30 years.
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By Adam Hill |
August 22, 2005
‘The King of Kings County” A Novel Whitney Terrell Viking: 362 pp., $24.95 *
IN the last half-century, American fiction has been blessed by
fine writers who have treated the settings of suburbia as grand
subjects in themselves.
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“The Diezmo,” the terrific new novel from Rick Bass, is inspired by
an infamous episode in early Texas history that became known as the
Mier Expedition.
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Entertainment |
By Adam Hill |
January 19, 2005
It is one of the more enduring and interesting of human truths: how
the needs that inspire faith can also occasion gullibility.
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Whether it takes the form of fiction or memoir, a book about a dying
parent imposes some rather stubborn limits upon a writer.
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