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Herman Koch, The Dinner…
Don’t read this review before listening to Herman Koch’s nove… 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 »
George Saunders, Tenth of Dec…
In Tenth of December, George Saunders uses satire to hilariously and tren… more »
Emma Donoghue, Astray…
Loosely organized around themes of displacement and exile, Emma Donoghue… more »
Louise Erdrich, The Round Hou…
Returning to the some of the same characters and geographies as in her 20… 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 »
Jean Shepard, A Christmas Sto…
Listening to Jean Shepard’s A Christmas Story is a little like disc… more »
Junot Díaz, This Is Ho…
Some books, like some songs and movies, can be so achingly sad they… more »
J.R. Moehringer, Sutton…
Wake up in Attica, go to bed at the Plaza. Fuckin’ America. Such wa… more »
Molly Ringwald, When It Happe…
Whether it’s a chance encounter or code-red crisis, every gesture i… more »
John Boyne, The Absolutist…
War is John Boyne’s topic; his best-known novel is the concentratio… more »
Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do…
In The Dead Do Not Improve, author Jay Caspian Kang describes the travail… more »
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Sl…
In this slim tale centered around a London ladies’ hostel at the en… more »
Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeeper…
Reaching back to the first century, Hoffman offers a feminist retelling o… more »
Amy Bloom, Away
After surviving the pogroms that killed her parents, husband, and child, … more »
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife…
This fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage, to… more »
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the …
Now a half-century old, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest remains a p… more »
Madeline Miller, The Song of …
A lyrical, charming and sexy recasting of the fall of Troy Even those who… more »
Nell Freudenberger, The Newly…
Amina Mazid arrives in America at age twenty-five from Bangladesh after m… more »
Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knoc…
Stories about loneliness, alienation, depression and death in worlds of m… more »
John Irving, In One Person…
A magical kind of origin story; ultimately one of acceptance “We ar… more »
Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind …
While it may have been innovative when Faulkner did it in As I Lay Dying,… 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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