In Author Dennis E. Staples’ Town, Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lie
In Dennis E. Staples’ remarkable debut This Town Sleeps, flawed mothers and sons must pacify vengeful ghosts and family curses.
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The Cursed Frontier: Ismail Kadare’s Theory of the State
Kadare's The Traitor's Niche suggests that to belong to the state is to either be a part of the machineries of power or in rebellion against them—and occasionally both.