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Nicholas Clapp (1936-2025) | Butter review
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Nicholas Clapp (1936-2025) | Butter review
Nicholas Clapp (1936-2025)
As Mike Barnes reports in The Hollywood Reporter, Nicholas Clapp, Documentarian and Author Known as a “Modern-Day Indiana Jones,” Dies at 89.
One of his works is under review at the complete review -- Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen.
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Butter review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Novel of Food and Murder by Yuzuki Asako, Butter.
I finally got my hands on a (library) copy of this, and, as I mention in the review, it's a welcome change from the usual contemporary Japanese fare found in translation (mysteries; fiction with quirky/fantastical elements; slim Akutagawa Prize-winners).
(Among the rare other recent offerings in this category is Matsuie Masashi's The Summer House (published in the UK as Summer at Mount Asama, because ... *sigh*), but, if not quite as polished, Yuzuki's novels offers considerably more to chew on, as it were.)
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