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Mar 9, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Tania De Rozario |Shawn Hoo
Dinner On Monster Island: Essays By Tania De Rozario Essays/Harper Perennial/Paperback/192 pages/$23.01/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3V0Ntj2)4 starsWhat can monstrous women in cinema history – the devilish Carrie White in Carrie (2013), the vengeful Thai ghost Natre who haunts her former boyfriend in Shutter (2004), Sadako with her waist-length black hair from Ring (1998) – teach one about growing up on the fringes of society?
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
thebcreview.ca | Tania De Rozario
Dinner on Monster Island: Essaysby Tania De RozarioToronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2024$17.99 / 9780063299665Reviewed by Brett Josef Grubisic*Although Tania De Rozario has resided in Vancouver for about a half-decade, in her electrifying collection of fourteen essays, Dinner on Monster Island, Singapore lingers in her mind. She pines for her homeland. She’s incensed about it too and an absolute assassin as she speaks her piece.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Tania De Rozario
1998. Lido Cineplex. Cold air, soft seats, the smell of popcorn. My friend Alice and I are both 17 years old and this is the quietest we’ve ever been together. The audience too has been silent for the last ninety minutes. No whispers, no beeping pagers, no awkward laughter at inappropriate moments. The air is thick with tension. Even the walls are afraid to breathe. On-screen, a man’s television set switches itself on. Static-ridden footage of an old brick well appears.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Tania De Rozario |Margot Livesey |Sara Ackerman |Gabriella Lepore
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 6th from Harper. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3uYNppb Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
citylights.com | Tania De Rozario
A The Millions "Most Anticipated" – "De Rozario transfixes with her idiosyncratic blend of film criticism, social critique, and autobiography. It's a unique and touching account." – Publishers Weekly (starred review)"In Dinner on Monster Island, Tania De Rozario brilliantly exorcises the demons of her upbringing–an evangelical mother, homophobic policies and culturally pervasive fatphobia–using horror films as an outlet and metaphor for her estrangement.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Tania De Rozario |Miriam Darlington |Sloane Crosley |Patrick Joyce
Nicholas Shakespeare. Harper, $35 (864p) ISBN 978-0-06-301224-0Novelist Shakespeare (The Dancer Upstairs) delivers an exemplary biography of British spy novelist Ian Fleming (1908–1964). The scion of a wealthy banking family, Fleming was an indifferent student and at age 23 flunked the Foreign Office exam, after which he became a Reuters correspondent. After WWII began, Fleming used his contacts to join the Naval Intelligence Division as a lieutenant commander.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Paul Sutter |Tania De Rozario |Miriam Darlington |Sloane Crosley
Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of DoubtSutter (How to Die in Space), an astrophysicist at Stony Brook University, levels a fiery critique at the perverse incentives that compromise the quality of scientific research. The pressures captured in the dictum “publish or perish,” Sutter contends, have fueled a $10 billion science and technology publishing industry “with double-digit profit margins” while producing a rash of studies with fabricated or unverifiable results.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Tania De Rozario |Miriam Darlington |Sloane Crosley |Patrick Joyce
Marc-William Palen. Princeton Univ, $35 (304p) ISBN 978-0-691-19932-0Free trade doctrine was once a mainstay of the political left, according to this probing history. University of Exeter historian Palen (The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade) explains that world trade in the 19th and early 20th centuries was defined by protectionist policies and imperial trade blocs that shielded domestic industries from foreign competition and secured captive markets for their products.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sheila Heti |Tania De Rozario |Miriam Darlington |Sloane Crosley
Sheila Heti. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-61078-4In this arresting literary experiment, Canadian novelist and playwright Heti (Pure Colour) takes sentences from 10 years of her personal journal entries and rearranges them in alphabetical order. “Don’t forget that although you aren’t telling a story, you must still do what stories do, which is lead readers through an experience,” Heti writes, providing a kind of cipher for the idiosyncratic format.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Tania De Rozario |Miriam Darlington |Sloane Crosley |Patrick Joyce
Megan Kimble. Crown, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-44378-1Journalist Kimble (Unprocessed) sets forth an immersive account of three ongoing “freeway revolts” in Texas cities that aim to block further urban highway expansion.
