bekah waalkes
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I reviewed the new lockwood novel 🫡
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bekah waalkes
Los Angeles Review of Books
7 months ago
"Books have become life itself for the narrator, fiction blending with memory to constitute the strange terrain of her mind, which comes to form the strange terrain of the novel."
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reviews Tezer Özlü’s novel "Journey to the Edge of Life."
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Stop Living Inside Literature | Los Angeles Review of Books
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/stop-living-inside-literature
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9 months ago
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i wrote about my calvino collection 😀 and why paperbacks are bad now 😔
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Covering Calvino|Prune
The novel cover changes and changes.
https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/03/the-novel-cover-changes-and-changes
9 months ago
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bekah waalkes
Mid Theory Collective
10 months ago
"There is no “normal time” and “trauma time” for Palestinians. There is Nakba time." Omid Bagherli interviews Palestinian author Omar Khalifah about his recent novel THE SAND-CATCHER and the attempts to remember and give form to an ongoing catastrophe.
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On Nakba Time: A Conversation with Omar Khalifah
For this old man, the only thing that matters — whether it’s ‘48 or ‘49 or ‘56 or ‘91 — is that Palestine is lost. Palestine is no longer so. Why do you even want to hear more details, when this is…
https://mid-theory.com/2025/03/06/on-nakba-time-a-conversation-with-omar-khalifah/
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I loved editing this piece on LESSER RUINS & the ordinary transcendence of reading Haber: "Few writers address mediocrity directly, I suspect, because writing requires attention, worry, and admitting to worrying about being mediocre is embarrassing, even shameful."
mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/u...
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Utopian Mediocrity: A Review of Mark Haber’s ‘Lesser Ruins’
Mediocrity is ordinary. And this, finally, is the political salience of Haber’s work. With the publication of Lesser Ruins, Mark Haber has written three novels about deeply weird men whose visions …
https://mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/utopian-mediocrity-a-review-of-mark-habers-lesser-ruins/
11 months ago
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bekah waalkes
Mid Theory Collective
11 months ago
INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.
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so thrilled to publish this brilliant piece by my friend Sam on the parallels btwn speedrunning & close reading
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so fun to talk about scents at
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