In “Green Frog,” Gina Chung Makes a Stunningly-Good Case for Writing Wholly Recognizable and Unrecognizable Characters

Andrew Leland on "The Country of the Blind" and the Spectrum of Blindness

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Strange Realities in “The President and the Frog” – Chicago Review of Books

Strange Realities in “The President and the Frog” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her most recent book The President and the Frog, Carolina De Robertis helps us to see the world as strange as it is, again. We are taken into the home of the former president of an unnamed Latin American country, where he has invited journalists to discuss his legacy and democracy’s present hard … Read more