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Against the Grain
The exceptional characters in this week’s selection include a college student pursuing the meaning of life, a hired mercenary on a cross country...
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Seize the Day
Five very different stories address the powerlessness one can feel when facing daily life. All are beautifully told, and find hope and inspiration...
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Come What May
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and to celebrate, we are featuring a wonderful second novel from a Chinese American...
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What a Character
Happy Independent Bookstore Day!The four works of fiction this week, including two debuts, are character-driven stories. Their authors have created...
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For the Love of Bookstores
This week we have a lovable heroine (whose story should continue in successive books), new translations of a dazzling German modernist...
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Language Itself
The books this week include a debut novel by one of our own, two books from the ’60s by a highly admired Danish writer, a collection of...
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Unbroken
This week we continue to highlight a significant new book of poems for National Poetry Month; an exceptional memoir; plus, three novels—two...
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Poetic / Justice
April is National Poetry Month, and it coincides with the much-awaited publication of Ocean Vuong’s new collection. In fiction there is the...
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Ukraine on the Page
We’d like to offer a small collection of exceptional fiction—new and old, long and short—from Ukraine. A short list of nonfiction titles...
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Read (A)broadly
We head out once more to farther shores in this selection: Iceland (a favorite returns), India (fiction from a journalist), Trinidad and Tobago...