Bookworm, no. 68

David Venn on elections. Caroline Noël reviews Angel B.H.’s “All Hookers Go to Heaven.” Emily Mernin on Kevin Lambert’s “May Our Joy Endure.” Inside the November issue.

Ballot Boxing

What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy
Jane Cooper
McGill-Queen’s University Press
216 pages, softcover and ebook

In many ways, What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy mirrors the course of a political campaign: boring and then thrilling, slow and then fast, distant and then all encompassing. But it’s mostly disheartening…