All posts tagged "fiction american contemporary"
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Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
August 5, 2022Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
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Books
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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Books
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: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
December 17, 2021Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
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Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
August 3, 2021After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...