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

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...

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. ...

First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous...

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

Now and then, a novel comes on the radar that should be more widely read than it might. Olga Dies...

Domenico Starnone writes slim fictions, a rarity given the door stop-sized novels published...

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