“Max Porter's innovative hybrid of fairy tale, fable, and myth cunningly
evokes the freewheeling fantasies of children at play. . . .The result is a
puckish celebration of imagination and free spirits rising above the buzz of
societal scolds and the anxieties of parental...
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“Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr.,
Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, China
Miéville, and Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Chiang has explored conventional tropes
of science fiction in highly unconventional wa...
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“One of the first great novels of the year... In a narrative so sharp it
could draw blood, Miriam Toews' Women Talking asks an immense, weighty
question: How do women who have lived their entire lives in a society that
severely limits their agency act when suddenly needi...
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The lyrical prose of Sophia Shalmiyev’s memoir, Mother Winter, splits open
like layer after layer of an ornate matryoshka. With a mesmeric voice and
scathing vulnerability, Shalmiyev peels her past down to its hollow core: the
vacancy left by her absent mother. Across ti...
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“Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states
of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop
thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet
unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ...
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“The contemporary Latin American detective novel is a form that uses the
individual’s rollicking quest as a means of resistance against repressive
structures and the violences they engender. Cristina Rivera Garza’s The
Taiga Syndrome, in this stellar translation by Suzan...
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From “Speak Truth to Power,” about the condition of not being believed
about rape and assault; to “Goliath,” about the ways evil is used as a
form of social control; to “The Fallout,” about ecological and
generational violence, Lacy M. Johnson creates masterful, elabora...
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