The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping,
impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation
of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back
to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel ...
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Rob Schlegel has a voice you’d follow into the dark woods, knowing full
well it’s hard, awful, daily, plain, living truth you’re running toward.
The speaker in this book is a heartbreaker of a storyteller—a synesthesiac
of mixed feelings, bad news, and wordsmithery. I fe...
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Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and
changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids)
to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive
stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new e...
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Between the Covers host David Naimon talks to Le Guin in 2017 about her
book Words Are My Matter. For the Fall Membership Drive, we're offering a
special thank you gift package of a package of signed books by Ursula K Le
Guin (limit 1 package available). Tune in to hear mor...
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“Ayşe Papatya Bucak's stories are wide-ranging and capacious, formally
playful, and moving. They speak on behalf of women who are subject to fate
and the tides of history. They speak of overcoming, of falling prey, of
overcoming again. They convey history's full force,...
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"In this memoir, Brandon Shimoda, an American poet of Japanese descent, tells
the story of his family, starting with his grandfather, who was transformed
into an 'enemy alien' by World War II; and in doing so, tells a universal
story of the horrors of war both physical a...
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"Wilk's debut novel is a strange, vivid thought experiment. In a near-future
Berlin, scientist Anja lives in an eco-settlement on an artificial mountain .
. . Anja’s quiet, shy analysis turns a critical eye to our future, asking
daring questions of how the desire to chan...
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