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Laura Miller

The Round House by Louise Erdrich - review

Erdrich's award-winning novel tells a story of brutal rape and a boy's coming of age on a Native-American reservation At the beginning of The Round House , the novel's 13-year-old narrator, Joe, is helping his father pry out tree seedlings that have lod

Mimi by Lucy Ellmann - review

Laura Miller finds that happiness is bad news for the usually furious Lucy Ellmann The rant is Lucy Ellmann's forte. Exasperated, indignant, disgusted, her narrators (first- and third-person) work themselves up into a fine fettle, spouting cascading tira