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Greenwells latest novel begins during lockdown.
Hes on his domestic partners insurance; the visit wouldve been cheaper were they married.
Kushner, the author ofThe FlamethrowersandThe Mars Room, is as intimidatingly intelligent as this twisty novels main character.
When Jane connects with another vaunted showrunner, shes sucked into a strange, demanding relationship.
This novel questions the utility of literature in a pop-culture-addled world.
She invites writerLucy Barton to listen to her stories.
Strout covers the ghosts of marriages and the indignity of old age with her usual thoughtfulness.
Class has always been the engine of Alams fiction (Leave the World Behindfeatures some excellent food porn).
As he invites her into his inner circle, she becomes entranced by the trappings of extreme wealth.T.O.
Brandon Sanchez
You know whats really gratifying about this book?
Theres beauty in the macabre fates that await these tormented souls.
Tolly Wright
Tulathimuttes unnerving depiction of angry losers in these interconnected stories is hard to look away from.
The book eventually turns on itself in a chapter written like a rejection letter from an unmoved publisher.
In her 2016 nonfiction book,Future Sex, the journalist sought out her own authentic sexuality.
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Kismet is caught in a love triangle, and the relationship she chooses threatens to break her.
Ina Garten took a winding path to becoming one of the biggest stars in food television.
Justin Curto
Booker Prize winner Hollinghurst is back in familiar territory (thank God!)
David grows up to be a talented actor, while Giles becomes a powerful conservative politician.
This lends the book a richness and subtlety that sets it apart from most contemporary fiction.
Morgan Baila
By chance I have reached a positive conclusion; its time for me to stop.
So ends the acknowledgments of what is believed to be the beloved but controversial French authors final book.
Houellebecqs supposed swan song wrestles with the questions of how to love and how to disappear.
This book offers a fresh perspective of slaverys impact and a confirmation of Widemans exalted status in American letters.
InAmerican Rapture shes gone bigger, bolder and perhaps even more upsetting.
A COVID-like illness sweeps the nation, carried on an ill wind.
The lucky die from the flu; others devolve into disinhibited, sexually voracious almost-zombies.
Its a nightmarish premise, more frightening still seen through the eyes of Sophie, an inexperienced teenager.
Sophies attempt to navigate this gruesomely lustful reality has all the hallmarks of great apocalyptic fiction.
TheSouthern Reachtrilogy is one of few 21st-century science-fiction stories to attain true classic status.
Her previous book,Hollywoods Eve, dished on the good and bad in Babitzs life.
Here, she frames Joan Didion and Babitz as opposites, a snob/slob, Apollo/Dionysus, Daria/Quinn dyad.
Theres a reason she didnt get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until this year.
So lets let the woman herself tell her story this time, in a long-awaited two-volume memoir.
J.C.
A lonely hero; a Beatles fan; a hidden, off-kilter world; a missing lover.
Murakamis first novel in six years has enough of his trademarks to fill a bingo card.
The novel grew from a short story of the same name published in 1980.
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