Literary
Remote Sympathy
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Germany, 1943. Hitler’s racial laws are fully enforced. Lenard Weber is a physician married to a Jewish wife, Anna, and they have a ...Read Review
Concord
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In Concord, his first novel, Zancanella (English, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of New Mexico) imagines the early adult lives of New England’s most ...Read Review
Thirst
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Like any retelling of a popular religious story, Thirst is an ambitious book. Nothomb narrates Jesus’s death from his point of view ...Read Review
What a Wonderful World This Could Be
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This deeply realistic and affecting novel spans the life of Alex, a teacher at an art college, beginning in the U.S in ...Read Review
Trio
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Part of the initial pleasure of Trio, set in Brighton, England and Paris in 1968, is puzzling out the title’s significance. Boyd may ...Read Review
Kaidenberg’s Best Sons: A Novel in Stories (193) (Essential Prose Series)
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Heit’s interconnected eight short stories trace the fates of a group of Schwarzmeerdeutsche (Black Sea Germans) who were driven from their farms ...Read Review
White Shadow (The Barrøy Trilogy 2)
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With her aunt recovering from a broken leg in a hospital on the mainland, Ingrid is the only person living on Barrøy. ...Read Review
Game of the Gods
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Inspired by the real life of the great Indian chess master, Malik Mir Sultan Khan, this literary historical novel set in the early-to-mid-20...Read Review
Margreete’s Harbor
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One day in 1955, Liddie Bright gets the phone call she’s long dreaded: Her mother, Margreete, has set fire to her kitchen, final ...Read Review
Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne
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On January 26, 1920, 21-year-old painter and artist’s model, Jeanne Hébuterne, fell backwards from a window, killing herself and her unborn child two ...Read Review
