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Review: INHERITED DISORDERS: STORIES, PARABLES, & PROBLEMS by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
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Review: INHERITED DISORDERS: STORIES, PARABLES, & PROBLEMS by Adam Ehrlich Sachs

ByGuest Reviewer

The shorts are wide-ranging. Some are heartbreaking in less than 500 words; others are unexpectedly hilarious whether outright or with a darker flavor to their humor. Disorders is a contemporary stable of parables not only about fathers and sons, but about the everyday struggle to live one’s life in another’s shadow and about the failure to meet another’s expectations.

Review: A DOUBTER’S ALMANAC by Ethan Canin
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Review: A DOUBTER’S ALMANAC by Ethan Canin

ByMatt Matros

A Doubter’s AlmanacEthan CaninRandom House, Feb 2016576 pp; $28 Mathematicians toil in obscurity, often for years, at work that will probably come to nothing. It doesn’t take a Fields Medalist to understand why a novelist, that most uncertain toiler of all, would be drawn to such a plight. Milo Andret, the genius at the center…