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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century.”

By Book Marks | February 8, 2024

Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on <em>American Fiction</em>

Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 8, 2024

Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

“You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”

By Karen Outen | February 7, 2024

Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ <em>Mouchette</em>

Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 7, 2024

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Rebecca K Reilly on the Editors Who Told Her to Change Her Novel for an American Audience

By Rebecca K Reilly | February 7, 2024

Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, <em>Sophie’s Choice</em>

Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

“Styron reminds us that storytelling isn’t an intrusion upon the lives of others, but is in fact an affirmation of all that which connects us.”

By Andrew Ewell | February 7, 2024

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Books of the Week

Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare's Manuscripts

By History of Literature | February 7, 2024

Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February

By David Woo | February 6, 2024

Margaret Atwood! Anne Carson! Robot writers! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 6, 2024

Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | February 6, 2024

Vengeful Goddesses, Panther Zorro, and Time Travel Valleys: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Vengeful Goddesses, Panther Zorro, and Time Travel Valleys: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Mysteries and Adventures from Robert Jackson Bennett, Jeff Noon, Melissa Albert, and More

By Natalie Zutter | February 5, 2024

Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

“This writer wants to show us that the ugly side of life is life’s necessary hemisphere.”

By Kirsty Gunn | February 5, 2024

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

Remembering the Queer Modernist Poet on Her Sesquicentennial

By Ed Simon | February 5, 2024

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Erik Wood Considers His Uncle’s “Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes”

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 5, 2024

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

”Death, and learning how to end a story: again, the woods made him into a writer.”

By Rick Bass | February 2, 2024

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