Professor of English at Saint Louis University Rhetoric, Media, Environment www.nathanielrivers.org
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The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him …
re-reading at long lost. Inspired to re-read as I am teaching VanderMeer's Authority, which has some nods and resonances.
This book rewired my brain when it first came out. Still does again.
Haven't read this one in a while. I am enjoying seeing from where I gathered many of my academic orientations.
With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last …
MacInnes’ descriptive language always draws me in. It’s hypnotic at times, but in this novel I think it’s used deceptively. The ability to describe exquisitely is treated ambivalently. The twinned (or here married) practices of science and technology and their descriptive power are held in tension until the end.
A farcical biography of Ulysses S. Grant, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is a …
I honestly don’t know what I have done in this life to deserve this Neely book on Grant. It’s like someone peered into my soul and then produced what it most desired.
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It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied …
re-reading for Absolution.
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series …
Continuing my re-read.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Better each time I read it.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Re-reading the trilogy in eager anticipation of book four.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion …
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows …
Impossibly stunning.
La mayor epopeya de todos los tiempos, en nueva edición con la traducción corregida en …
re-reading (again) post Dune 2
A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration …
Rereading after a long time to prep for a writing/research class I’m teaching for our prison program.
An amazing book that I should have read 20-years ago! Changing a lot about my teaching because of it.