Literary
Children of the Wild
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Near Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, Roy and Samantha grow up as wild children, at home in the woods. Sam, the preacher’s daughter, ...Read Review
Those Are Pearls
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This sprawling tale of generational trauma begins in South Africa where Harry Short, a Boer War veteran, aspires to marry a woman above ...Read Review
Sunrise
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Obreht’s electrifying novel opens in summer 2024, in the aftermath of a plane crash. Nina, a New York-based grad student and nanny, was ...Read Review
Autobiography of Cotton
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In 1934, nineteen-year-old José Revueltas ridespast fields of white gold cotton on his way from Mexico City to Estación Camarón near the ...Read Review
Ghost-Eye
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In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017), Ghosh urged his fellow novelists to embrace the unthinkable, the catastrophic, the prodigious, and ...Read Review
Now I Surrender
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Alternate HistoryLiteraryWestern
Past and present come together to tell a very different story of how the West was won in Álvaro Enrigue’s brutal yet ...Read Review
Dust and Wonder
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For roughly a decade after Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883, its dust whirled around the earth, especially the southern continents. That’s the “dust” ...Read Review
The Depopulation
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In the wilderness of 17th-century Brazil, two Spanish Jesuit priests—the intense and mystical Father Ruiz and his assistant, Father Maceta—work to ...Read Review
When Mikan Road Was Ours
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Thirty-four-year-old Mr. Murano (no first name provided) lives alone in South Pasadena, where he teaches high school English. Soon after his Japanese father ...Read Review
May We Feed the King
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This remarkable story, set in two eras, begins and ends in the present with a seven centuries-prior medieval in between. The modern setting ...Read Review
