Category: Book reviews
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On Swearing (and Why Germans Love the F Word)
Perhaps one of the most shocking things about globalization has been how widely spread English swear words have become. The words that were banned from my mouth as a child are not censored out on the radio in Germany and as American culture infiltrates everything, they’ve made their way into the average German’s mouth without…
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On Roxane Gay’s “Hunger”
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this book. The very brief chapters, all focused on one particular aspect of the writer’s life and her relationship to her body, her weight, food, family and how they intertwine was a brilliant format for our attention-deprived age.…