Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
The Poet. The Novelist. You know the type. The capitalization shows even when they refuse to...
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The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
Growing up in a rural part of the Midwest in the 1980s, what I learned about Communism was limited...
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Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow
It isn’t often that I search for other reviews of a book before finishing at least a draft...
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Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet
To get the mundane aspects out of the way early: there’s nothing mechanically wrong...
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The Big Crowd by Kevin Baker
… Doesn’t it always seem that’s how it is, Tom? We lie the most to those nearest...
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Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III is the kind of writer every MFA student in the 1990s aspired to be. A...
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On The Floor by Aifric Campbell
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s a man’s world. And in this man’s world, a woman has...
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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver
Within a month of this writing, the state of Texas performed its 500th execution since 1982. That...
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The Abomination by Jonathan Holt
Tom Gauld, cartoonist for the book review section of The Guardian, published a piece that I think...
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Screwed by Eoin Colfer
I want to bawl like a drunken aunt. I wanna grind my teeth to stumps and punch the wall, but I...
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
“No point in thinking,” [Ursula] said briskly, “you just have to get on with...
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Back in my MFA days at a midwestern university whose faculty came a bit late to the whole postmodernism thing, I took a contemporary fiction course with a professor who liked to make the claim, during nearly every class, that all works of art were in some way about the making of art.…
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The World’ Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
[A Life in Books; In Books, a Life] By Josh Hanagarne’s account, the consistent presence of books is the base on which his life finds its stability.…
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