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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“The most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century.”
Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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.”
Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style
Adam Greenhalgh on the American Abstract Painter's Early Years
How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction
Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton
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
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.”
Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts
From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
Supernatural Inheritance: On a Unique Family Gift That Crosses Continents
Margot Livesey Explores the Possibility of a Power Passed Down for Generations
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