“Garth Greenwell, whose first book is a masterpiece, amazingly has written
a second book that is also a masterpiece. The great enterprise that Joyce and
Lawrence began—to write with utter literal candor about sex, grounding
one’s moral life and philosophical insight in w...
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“In the Dream House…confronts the issues of credibility, self-doubt, and
disbelief that all too frequently arise when survivors of domestic abuse
speak out. But the work also stands as an intervention explicitly aimed at
the silences, erasures, and lacunae of the culture...
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“In The Magical Language of Others, E.J. Koh writes of the boundary
between anonymity and naming, between absence and abandonment, between
cruelty and safety for four generations of mothers and daughters, each
speaking with an occupied heart and crossing narrative border...
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In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through the
embodied voices of women and marginal characters, so often conquered and
destroyed throughout history. She captures the richness and complexity of the
Mahabharata, while illuminating lives buried benea...
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CA Conrad, author of nine books of poetry and essays, including the Lamba
Literary Award-Winning "While Standing in Line for Death," is one of the
foremost practitioners of what they call "(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals." Conrad
joins David Naimon today to discuss their curre...
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The Book of Lost Saints is an evocative multigenerational Cuban-American
family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds from New York
Times-bestselling author Daniel José Older.
Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a
trace. Now, sha...
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“On its surface, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is an
examination of toxic masculinity through the lens of a queer, indigenous
Southwesterner, a book in which alcoholism, violence, and sex under cover of
night are both ruefully and sensually described. But e...
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Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically
respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story
collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to
mine the fraught and complex experience of l...
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