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Table of Contents - June 12, 2025
Can the Church Evolve? The big question for Pope Leo XIV is whether he will complete Pope Francis’s mission to make the Catholic Church less tyrannical. Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones Nettie Jones’s debut novel, published in 1984 and newly reissued, is still breathtaking and shockingly bawdy. Fish Tales by Nettie Jones Arms Race in Ukraine New drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine—and demonstrating the obsolescence of much Western weaponry.
Flower
Excerpted from the novel Fish Tales by Nettie Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ◆ I think we could say that I was feeling maudlin that early summer night. Six extra-dry vodka martinis with dilled Brussels sprouts and dinner alone in Detroit can make a monk feel maudlin. I was also tired of Little Harry’s cocktail pianist. That pianist was for sure not Bobby Short. He reminded me a bit of my piano teacher, Mr. Alpino. My mother had insisted that I learn to play piano.
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The dazzling lost classic, and a Lit Hut Most Anticipated Book of 2025. Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, Fish Tales is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.
Libertine Angst
YOU GOT got into my dreams and changed them into fantasies— The stupor between erotic slapstick and stoic mortification that should subsume anyone sentient after reading the inconclusive, concussive epilogue of Nettie Jones’s 1984 novel Fish Tales tempts you to return, puzzled and undone, to page one, to see if you overlooked the exact pivot from ribald debauchery to high tragedy, with its common mask of rage and madness trailing over the edge into insight.
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