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In her new story collection, “The Protester Has Been Released,” Sarbanes presents a timely meditation on the dangers …

A review of Lisa Russ Spaar’s fifth poetry collection, Orexia: “love has stories not mine to know/ or ever tell.”

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Arndt’s debut story collection, “Large Animals,” is both intellectual and experimental.

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Sarah Gerard’s collection of essays is part-memoir, part-investigative journalism about the darker sides of Floridian…

Blair Braverman’s memoir, “Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube,” is filled with excitement and tells of her toughness, he…

2016 has been a difficult year, one that’s seen a type of social and political heartache many would like to forget; i…

To go as far as she can, and yes, to be a little disgusting too, is the project of Sharon Olds “Odes.” The poems dig …

Patricia Bell-Scott’s new book, The Firebrand and the First Lady, unearths the relationship between two seemingly dis…

My grandmother introduced me to “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith. “It was her favorite book,” I’d say, “and I wa…

Rejection is either an act or a state of being. Marguerite Duras explores both in “The Lover,” an autobiography that …

The rules of people are so easily ascribed to God: a sleight-of-hand trick to say who can do what, and when, and how.…

I spent my childhood working at my family’s small, cabin-court motel in upstate New York, a place our guests were alw…

A year after Sheila Heti published her hugely original and popular metanovel, How Should a Person Be?, the director J…

Norwegian contemporary literature isn’t all crime and Knausgaard. In fact, the debate the United States is now …

Why Did I Ever captures the strangeness, the despair, the ennui of life, and presents it flawlessly.

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