MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

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Open Sesame! Translators Unlock Words and Worlds
But Do They Sometimes Steer Us Wrong? Can We Know? How Much Does It Matter?
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Joel J Miller
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Open Thread: Books in Translation?
What’s Your Favorite Book in Translation? Your Most Recent?
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Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box
The Human Self in Literature and Science: Reviewing Eric Hoel’s ‘The World Behind the World’
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‘And Lead Us Not into Distraction’
What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’
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Bookish Diversions: All the Presidents’ Books
Washington’s Radicals and Rogues, Kennedy’s Advisor, Tricky Dick, Obama’s Library, Trump’s Favs, More
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A Dream that Will Change You
Reviewing Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Ghostly Novella ‘Baron Bagge’
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Jordan M. Poss
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No Easy Money, But What If?
Everybody’s Got an Angle: Reviewing Chester Himes’s Noir Classic ‘A Rage in Harlem’
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Open Thread: Books You’ve Been Stalling?
We All Have Books We Can’t Work up the Energy to Start
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July 2025

American Mythos: Why the West Still Beckons
The Cost of Vengeance: Reviewing Aaron Gwyn’s ‘The Cannibal Owl’ and Derrick G. Jeter’s ‘Blood Touching Blood’
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Bookish Diversions: Lifetime Reader
6 Decades of Books, Nobody’s Reading—Even Though They Want to, Do Men Read Novels? More
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How Many Minds Can Henry James Cram in a Single Paragraph?
‘The Ambassadors’ and the Neuroscience of Novels
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Bookish Diversions: Forget the Paperback?
Paperbacks in Decline, When Paperbacks Were King, Art and Science of Paper, Goatskin!
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