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The Maris Review, vol 31
The scale and scope of the right wing book bans are absolutely not the same as the relatively few cases of book bans from the left. Let’s stop with…
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The Maris Review, vol 30
How can publishers possibly protect authors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers from hate, from vilification, from criminalization, while…
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The Maris Review, vol 29
I have no idea what will happen today or tomorrow or next week, but I know that 2025 will have good books (including mine!), and that's not nothing.
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October 2024

The Maris Review, vol 28
"I look at the faces of the sallow and entirely uninspiring so-called media elite and I yearn for any glimpse of optimism that doesn’t involve the…
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The Maris Review, vol 27
You will either come away from this with new insight into the quagmire of contemporary book coverage, or you will simply see me as an overthinker…
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The Maris Review, vol 26
"Books that craft Jewish characters to embody the endurance of the human spirit in all its nobility are, in fact, denying these characters’ humanity…
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The Maris Review, vol 25
What I read this week
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The Maris Review, vol 24
I’d like to point out that the book is called Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters; it isn’t called Why Hamas Is Cool and We Support Them.
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September 2024

The Maris Review, vol 23
"What we demand of authors who cross racial or cultural lines is that they do so with the adequate amount of skill and respect." Yep, Jeanine Cummins…
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The Maris Review, vol 22
I could surely choose 11 titles published solely by PRH in 2024 and have a pretty stellar year-end list. AND THAT IS A PROBLEM.
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The Maris Review, vol 21
It’s not new that successful books are copied many times over to try to capitalize on a trend, like how we saw a zillion sadistic billionaire romance…
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The Maris Review, vol 20
More and more it seems that Neil Gaiman has been a textbook case of the kind of Bad Man for whom sexual assault and abuse of power is never just a…
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