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Ron Currie Jr., Flimsy Little…
Ron Currie Jr. begins his second novel with a clear invitation to call hi… more »
Dick Lehr and Gerard O’…
Some Bostonians used to like to paint James Joseph “Whitey” B… more »
Herman Koch, The Dinner…
Don’t read this review before listening to Herman Koch’s nove… more »
Manil Suri, The City of Devi…
Manil Suri’s enormous, hysterical opus tells two seemingly disconne… more »
Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Di…
Sam Sheridan could have been Batman. The dude is a former wilderness fire… more »
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then…
The painful tension between hate and love, the two strongest and most com… more »
Teddy Wayne, The Love Song of…
Even at 11 years old — almost 12, he’d tell you — tween… more »
John Kenney, Truth in Adverti…
Finbar Dolan, the sexually frustrated, commitment-phobic, 30-something pr… more »
Lynn Coady, The Antagonist…
Gordon Rankin, aka Rank, the protagonist of Lynn Coady’s The Antago… more »
Andrew Solomon, Far From the …
There may be no perfect time for a parent to listen to Andrew Solomon… more »
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on …
Go Tell It on the Mountain is James Baldwin’s seminal, semi-au… more »
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra…
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is just the kind of novel you… more »
Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds o…
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s debut collection opens, fittingly, with an e… more »
Warren Ellis, Gun Machine…
There’s no easing into Gun Machine — Warren Ellis’s fer… more »
Wendy McClure, The Wilder Lif…
Though the 1970s TV series starring Michael Landon cemented its status as… more »
George Saunders, Tenth of Dec…
In Tenth of December, George Saunders uses satire to hilariously and tren… more »
Caroline de Margerie, America…
Nancy Mitford modeled a character on her, but it was as a comically prigg… more »
Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord…
Giving “Christmas spirit” a new meaning, Brom’s bold fa… more »
Emma Donoghue, Astray…
Loosely organized around themes of displacement and exile, Emma Donoghue… more »
Chinua Achebe, There Was a Co…
There Was a Country, Chinua Achebe’s firsthand account of the Niger… more »
Louise Erdrich, The Round Hou…
Returning to the some of the same characters and geographies as in her 20… more »
John Taylor, In the Pleasure …
For fans of the ’80s superpop group Duran Duran (and let’s be… more »
Zadie Smith, NW
The title of Zadie Smith’s fourth novel refers to the neighborhood … more »
Libba Bray, The Diviners…
In this eponymous first installment of her new The Diviners series, YA fa… more »
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eMusic Features
Interview: Eddie Huang
By Elisa Ludwig, eMusic Contributor
A Vice TV host with a law degree, a hip-hop obsession, and a NYC restaurant called Baohaus (serving Taiwanese buns, named for his favorite architects), Eddie Huang is a walking culture clash. In his memoir… more »
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