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ON BOOKS | OPINION: Salman Rushdie’s “The Eleventh Hour” and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Book of Cats” — late works that refuse closure
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (157+ words) Both books are modest in size and deliberate in manner. Each represents a late-career narrowing rather than an expansion: a turn toward compression, attention and ethical restraint. They offer refined ... Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the…...
ON BOOKS | OPINION: John Darnielle’s annotated lyrics in “This Year” and Caroline Fraser’s “Murderland” on serial killers
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (93+ words) Two new books, different in subject but oddly companionable in spirit, look past the surfaces of American storytelling and toward the forces that shape it -- some intimate, some atmospheric, some ... Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the…...
ONBOOKS | OPINION: Literature in any season is about continuity
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (82+ words) Autumn's publishing calendar rarely lacks for noise; 2025 arrives with a chorus that tilts from porch-friendly to polemical. Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 1993. In that time, he has won more than 100 regional and…...
“Iawke”: How a young Marshallese man reconnected with his relatives by chance
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (147+ words) On a hot July afternoon in Springdale, Jacob Hawkes knocked on one of the last doors on his route and encountered a version of himself he didn't know he was looking for. Dustin Staggs is a features writer for the…...