Unless you're actively not paying attention, you know Sherman Alexie—we review his books, gave him a Genius Award for literature in 2008, and run his short fiction every week in the back of the paper. But the release of his new book of short stories, Blasphemy (Grove Press, $27), demands our attention. It's half career retrospective—three of the stories were title stories in previous collections—and half new work. Rather than writing yet another profile-review, I decided to take the book apart, piece by piece, and see how it works by reviewing every one of the 31 stories in the collection, in order.
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