The Brooklyn Rail

Books

• A Compelling, If Foggy Debut

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  By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

• Against the Law

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  By Gabriel Don

• A Second Birth

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  By Larissa Zimberoff

• Pain on Both Sides

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  By Kenan Trebincevic

• JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney

• BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson

• DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod

• On the Road Again

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  By Jim Feast

• Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction
  Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press

• On Board with The Atavist

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  By Christopher Carbone