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Reviews & Essays

Speedboat

A long-out-of-print gem of wry postmodernism returns.

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Ten White Geese

A Welsh farmhouse offers a garden of earthly delights.

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Middle C

Why the eighty-eight-year old novelist's new work reads like a debut.

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Interview

Working Woman: An Interview with Marisa Silver

The author of Mary Coin on photography, teenagers, and writing a new kind of biography.

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Interview

I View Readers as Participants: Mohsin Hamid on Writing in the Second Person

The author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia discusses his choice of a narrative point of view.

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Crime and Punishment

Harvest

Violent reckoning strikes a secluded and secretive eighteenth-century village.

 

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See Now Then

A family's domestic drama carries the magnitude of Greek myth.

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

A horde of surreal short stories meld the commonplace with the supernatural.

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Interview

About a Boy Band: An Interview with Teddy Wayne

The author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine on bubblegum pop, marketing lingo, and fun with playlists.

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Library Without Walls

The Purple Cloud

A chilling Arctic expedition, fueled by horrific magic.

 

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A Reading Life

The Best of Youth

A star actor and his harried ghostwriter wage a war of words.

 

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Artful

Phantom authors haunt the pages of Ali Smith’s unclassifiable new work.

 

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The Painted Girls

A novel of Belle  Époque Paris, through the eyes of a dancer-turned-studio-muse.

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Life Goes On

A novel of Germany during the rise of the Nazis -- and banned by Hitler's regime.

 

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Lazarus Is Dead

A biblical miracle is recast as an episode in the story of a long and unusual friendship.

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