Book excerpt
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Why didn’t we kill you off
Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. If North America doesn’t like Live Indians and it doesn’t like Legal Indians, why doesn’t the military-political-corporate complex just kill us off? I know this question sounds melodramatic and absurd, but I’ve been to…
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Principles of redemption
Excerpt from Peace and Good Order by Harold R. Johnson This is an excerpt from the book Peace and Good Order by Harold R. Johnson. The fundamental difference between how First Nations would maintain peace and good order and how Canada has administered it is that First Nations would apply principles of redemption, whereas Canada…
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Natural sweetness inside
Excerpt from Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor This is an excerpt from the book Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor. I just found out that Flannery O’Connor was quite blatantly racist. I don’t think it’s fair to simply say she’s a product of her times (she was alive and writing at the same time as James…
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Sacrificial canaries
Excerpt from The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei This is an excerpt from the book The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich. It was only years later as a young woman at boarding school studying hard to be a dermal care technician, that Momo finally stumbled upon some information about…
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The story of Grandpa’s tigress
Excerpt from Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan This is an excerpt from the book Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan, translated from the Bahasa Indonesia by Labodalih Sembiring. More astonishing that the genies was the story of Grandpa’s tigress. According to Ma Muah the village storyteller, many a man in the hamlet had a tigress of…
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You made this?
Excerpt from Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree This is an excerpt from the book Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. Thimble rapped on the front door as the two of them prepared to open. In his hands he clutched a cloth-wrapped lump that trailed wisps of steam. Viv smelled something warm and yeasty and…
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I was alive. Or was I?
Excerpt from Confessions by Kanae Minato This is an excerpt from the book Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. But I was awake, and I was in my room, even if it had been trashed somehow, and I was still breathing. I could still move my arms and legs. I…
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The Cave
Excerpt from Bunny by Mona Awad This is an excerpt from the book Bunny by Mona Awad. Workshop is held in what is called the Cave, but is really just a black-box theater in the basement of the Narrative Arts Center. No visible doors, no windows, and of course, no clocks. Only dark, damp walls…
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It’s worse than I imagined
Excerpt from The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin This is an excerpt from the book The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, translated from the Chinese by Joel Martinsen. The Dark Forest is the second book in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth’s Past, or commonly known as the The Three-Body Problem series. I should note…
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By living in the future
Excerpt from Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin This is an excerpt from the book Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Ichigo, though it was not yet called Ichigo, was supposed to be easy. Something that Sam and Sadie could accomplish during the summer between their junior and senior years. Although…