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28 reviews

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Incredible. Everyone who gives a shit about urban social life or the decay of the political subject should read this whole trilogy.

Hangman by Maya Binyam

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adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Incredible. Read it to the very end.

Content Warnings

Confabulations by John Berger

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

If you've read various issuings of Berger's essays, you might notice some overlap between them; for me, there's pleasure in the repetition and a lot to be found in his reflections. He loses me a little when he veers into the classicism that has never really interested me very much, or when he gets horny (his crooked lips can rarely resist revealing that he is so). You do you, John!

Live Audio Essays by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

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4.25

This is an unusual work – transcripts of artist-investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan's various performance lectures detailing his work within and beyond Forensic Architecture, as well as an index that I think was composed primarily as written text. The slight distance between this text and most of the actual works described is fruitful in allowing the artist to determine his own distance from the rigour of the initial project or investigation, and to attend to narrative and feeling around them. They may serve for many as a template for a style of non-fiction writing that is deeply felt and deeply researched, inviting and generous and gentle in handling often brutal facts; one that draws lines between symbols and facts in our era and demonstrates their fluctuating power in relation to one another. I really enjoyed this a lot and read it much more quickly than I had expected I might.

Debris Issue 03: The Urge to Know by Jon Tjhia, Cher Tan

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adventurous challenging funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

I'm biased af. (:

Fossil by Polly Stanton

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adventurous challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Leviathan by Paul Auster

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced