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First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous masterpiece, "Evidence of Things Unseen." If...

An exploration of two novels: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan and The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka

Now and then, a novel comes on the radar that should be more widely read than it might. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez is one. A...

Domenico Starnone writes slim fictions, a rarity given the door stop-sized novels published recently. One might call them novellas, as...

Lost & Found arrives with a unique blend of heart and mind. Written by Kathryn Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, it’s a...

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. ...

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