Despite Bill Minutaglio’s admirable approach, many interviews, and access to a wide range of documents, the attorney general rarely comes into focus in his first biography.
What better way to escape the vagaries of commodity culture than to escape to a Caribbean tourist trap, be devoured by rabid mosquitoes, and get stalked by deranged natives happy to butcher white folks where they stand?
Maybe it’s because Americans so instinctively put British folk on a pedestal of erudition, but it’s a welcome relief to find one who, however book smart, is a complete social imbecile
VandeerMeer first introduced Ambergris in an intriguing series of novellas, collected as City of Saints and Madmen. This is his first full-length novel set in the mythical city.
Pretty much all the major culture war battlefronts are encapsulated in this very readable primer on the burgeoning Christian political movement in the U.S.
