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All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
December 10, 2023How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
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Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
December 7, 2023So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
December 6, 2023That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
December 5, 2023The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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Driftless by David Rhodes
December 5, 2023In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
December 4, 2023Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
December 3, 2023Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
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Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
December 2, 2023Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
December 2, 2023The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
December 1, 2023Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...