Fiction. Midwestern American absurdist Dallas Wiebe has been lauded as "unsettlingly original" by the cosmopolitan elite. In THE VOX POPULI STREET STORIES, Wiebe's characters lure him into dark corners in search of a "virgin tongue" which is really just the punch line disguised as darkness to the fierce light of the imagination. Other titles by Wiebe available from SPD are GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN and SKYBLUE'S ESSAYS.
The Vox Populi Street Stories
The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history.
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This timely and engaging book examines the rise of populism across the globe.
knows what else”) symbolize the hybridity Samatar discusses with Cole. Yolanda tells the story of a classmate, Andy, a persecuted “dork” whom she is friends with despite worrying about being “contaminated by his nerd gas,” which causes ...
Taken together, these ten essays consider “the voice of the people” in the light of history, in a collection that only The New Criterion could assemble.
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