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“Everyone I know is trying to sleep less,” says the narrator of Jenny Offill’s new book Weather. “Insomnia as a…
Jan 24
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On the top floor of a Barnes and Noble in New York City, on the release day for Jeanine Cummins’s controversial and…
Aug 19
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Apr 16 2019
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Giving birth is an apocalypse: one world ends, another becomes. In Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot, Cora sits alone in…
Jul 3 2018
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Nearly a decade before Samantha Hunt published her haunting novel Mr. Splitfoot and years before The Invention of…
Jun 2 2018
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I’m SORRY, I’m sorry, I apologize in advance for the divisive snickering and focusing on another Melania conspiracy…
Oct 6 2017
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The women of Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection Her Body and Other Parties are haunted, invisible, stitched…
Aug 26 2017
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Praise for journalist Rich Smith’s article on The Stranger, “Meet John Smelcer, Native American Literature’s ‘Living…
Aug 25 2017
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Earlier this week, debut novelist Lani Sarem seemed to accomplish a surprising coup: her book, Handbook for Mortals,…
May 4 2017
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Paula Hawkins’s new page-turner, Into the Water, is set is in Beckford, a small tourist town in northern England.…
Mar 10 2017
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Starting today, I’ll be writing a monthly roundup highlighting newish books that should be on your radar. The first…
Oct 9 2016
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Last week the literary world read with slacked jaws Claudio Gatti’s brutish article in the New York Review of Books o…
Sep 25 2016
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Today in droll coincidences: nearly 150 years ago, an anonymous author published The Odd Trump, a novel whose…
Nov 24 2015
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The brilliant fiction writer Claire Vaye Watkins has written an essay called “On Pandering,” a call to action…
Mar 16 2015
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Kelly Link is the author of four short-story collections: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty…
Apr 14 2014
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Congratulations are in order for Donna Tartt, whose 784-page book, The Goldfinch, a "beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters," has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Raise your hand if you've read it.
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Dec 5 2013
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If you're intrigued by the words "subatomic bisexual orgy," today is your day. The winner of the 2013 Bad Sex in…
Sep 30 2013
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The literary world was rocked — ROCKED — this weekend when author Helen Fielding released excerpts from her newest Br…
Aug 14 2013
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Next week, the first installment of The Mortal Instruments hits screens. Cassandra Clare, who wrote The Mortal…
May 5 2013
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Julie Klausner's first YA novel, Art Girls Are Easy, is being released as an original e-book on May 7th; the…