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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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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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