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Brave Women, Bold Nature
The recommendations this week naturally fell into two categories that often overlap: women and nature. We have a feminist retelling of ancient...
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So, What Else Is New?
What seems appealing to read in the middle of these dog days of summer? How about some writing advice for that novel you’ve been contemplating...
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Hauntings
This week highlights two mysteries: an impressive contemporary debut that seems as though it was written in another era and one from a tried and...
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Eureka!
These five books could not be more different from one another, but they undeniably confirm why California is such a fertile setting for fiction
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The View Inside
A paen to W.E.B. Du Bois and a rediscovered gem of Black fiction; a frenetic memoir by an actor whose infectious energy will take you on an exhilarating...
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Apart and Together
This week features mad housewives, animal behavior, distanced families, solitude, and some much-needed poetry. Many of these books star an isolated...
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2021 First Novel Prize
The Center for FictionThe Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize was awarded to Kirstin Valdez Quade for her debut novel The Five Wounds (W
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Making Connections
The desire to connect is part of what makes us human, and the following stories approach this notion to great effect. Each shares the common thread...
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Fireworks!
As the country approaches the 245th celebration of Independence Day, we mark the occasion with a probing and hilarious view of an American wife...
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Between Two Worlds
The books this week all have characters who straddle worlds—whether through location or vocation, reality or fantasy, historical truth or fictional...