But more often than not, when Daum attempts meaningful cultural commentary, it's the cutesy shtick the kinky habits of Renaissance Faire-ies, the irredeemable geekiness of highbrow music lovers rather than any real insight or artistry that makes an impression. It's impressive how Daum can occasionally evoke several levels of sexual, religious, and literary tension in less than 10 words. Perhaps in Nebraska, less haunted by the financial and artistic costs of keeping one's byline in circulation, she'll find the space and time to write essays in which these moments are frequent rather than rare. Call it an adventure that never denies its own mass-mediated status. Even the villains acknowledge their roots.
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He voyages north, finds the ship, returns home, loses and regains the antiques, gains and loses lovers several times. As always with the intensely playful Echenoz, fun vies with games for control. Undaunted, Yamanaka has shed her trademark pidgin English and some of her raffish good humor in a new, unsettling novel about the taboos of motherhood, Father of Four Passages . Sonia Kurisu is a single mother struggling to raise an autistic infant while dealing with the bitter morass of her own childhood in Hawaii. I've choked too many times to count . . .