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Beneficence by Meredith Hall: A story about connections made, and lost, and about healing from grief, but unlike any novel dealing with...

A contender for the National Book Award, Matrix, by Lauren Groff, is one powerful original glorious work of fiction.

This dispatch features the books The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and Mating by Norman Rush; novels old and new, both examining with...

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn’t endure the certainty of suffering. ~ Niall Williams

In the examination of the pairing of the novels Unsettled Ground by Clair Fuller and Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino— just published,...

After I read Whereabouts, I picked up Happiness, As Such, by Ginzburg, a very different novel and yet, the tone, the observational...

I am discovering novels that seem to go together – not so much in content, rather in style or thematic. ...

Like a spool of yarn, of many colors, The Sun Collective reveals in strands, a bit at a time, and takes the reader along, although I cannot...

Nicole Krauss returns to a common theme: what is at the heart of a relationship for women, and, in gazing into that psyche, she reflects as...

Jack is best read in a quiet space. Slowly. Pensively. Because it is a quiet novel, told almost in a whisper. An interior narrative by one...

This is one of the most hard to put down novels I’ve read, and that’s saying something, considering all the good fiction that’s been...

Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, was a hard-hitting study of four generations of African women descending from a slave ship. It moved...

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