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Emission Impossible

On policies and persuasion

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

Ulysses Unbound

Navigating this Age of Appetite

Jeff Bursey

Jeff Bursey’s literary criticism has appeared in American Book Review,the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the Literary Review, among other publications. His first book, Verbatim: A Novel (Enfield and Wizenty, 2010), is a satire, set in a parliament, told only in lists of members, letters between bureaucrats and political debates.

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Shop Girl Blues

A journalist tries selling for a living and lives to write about it September 2011
Caitlin Kelly, born in Canada, has for some time lived and worked in the United States. There are two Kellys present in Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail: one is the newspaper reporter fed up with getting mistreated by management despite her respected reporting and, finally, a casualty of the shrinking print…