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Benito’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Benito’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Benito M. Vergara Jr.
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The Lost Expedition: Session Report and Review
The Lost Expedition A game by Peer Sylvester Osprey Games BGG listing. Note: The most cursory of historical research went into the writing of this fictionalized session report on the card game The Lost Expedition. My dearest Slimane, I cannot conceive of a place so different from Geneva and my beloved Algiers than the province […]
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Displaying Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th Century Philippines
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Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
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| Look at a series of William Eggleston photographs and you emerge seeing the world differently. Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing marks, for me, a shift in this vein. Advocating a stance of curiosity and political engagement with the local, Odell’s mono ...more | |
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| I've been slowly reading the Parker novels in order of publication. Donald J. Westlake is one of my writer heroes. "The Seventh" is unlike the previous novels in the series, though. Instead of walking us through the planning of a heist--just like the ...more | |
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| David B's Nocturnal Conspiracies is a beautifully illustrated collection of the cartoonist's dreams, but that's about it. Tough to recommend when dreams are, arguably, incoherent by nature, though (apparently) David B. remembers more oneiric details ...more | |
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| James Ellroy’s Perfidia is both fascinating and infuriating. It’s a gift for Ellroy fans, though, because it features characters from his seven previous novels. (The dramatis personae in the appendix is 5 pages long.) But it’s the kind of ambitiously ...more | |
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| This is the kind of history I like reading: told from the perspectives of (extra)ordinary people—in this case, Americans, whether volunteer soldiers, nurses, or reporters—as seen in their letters, dispatches, and journals. But in this case it felt la ...more | |
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