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Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
March 26, 2022As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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Book Review: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
March 24, 2022The feelings and experiences that preoccupy Straub are pregnancy and motherhood, friendship and domestic partnership. The...
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Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 23, 2022The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Book Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
March 23, 2022Perhaps it’s fair to say that the big accomplishment of Diaz’s new book is that it...
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Book Review: NW by Zadie Smith
March 20, 2022By calling her newest novel NW, Zadie Smith follows in the tradition of other writers, including...
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Book Review: Office Girl by Jay Meno
March 11, 2022Chicago is the city, 1999 is the year. This book is a love story but one...
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Book Review: You & Me by Padgett Powell
March 7, 2022You might enjoy your own shot of bourbon to compliment the liquor these two “weirdly agreeable...
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Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
February 28, 2022A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...
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Book Review: The Other by Thomas Tryon
February 23, 2022The summer of 1935 is a hot and languorous one in Pequot Landing, Connecticut. Elms yet...
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Book Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
January 28, 2022Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...