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Brooklyn goes Hollywood

By Greg Dybec

Colm Toibin’s popular novel comes to life on the big… >>

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Henry David Thoreau the video game

By Greg Dybec

Walden Pond’s modern makeover

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Bret Easton Ellis in conversation

By Greg Dybec

Laurent Binet discusses his anticipated debut novel.

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Books Review

How They Were Found

Matt Bell

Short stories from Michigan’s indie darling.

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Books Review

Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

Should have been a hit.

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Books News

2012 Guggenheim Fellows announced

By Damian Van Denburgh

Meet the Fellows.

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Books News

Flatscreen’s star studded book trailer

By Greg Dybec

Porn stars, actors, and books.

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Books News

Teaching YouTube to read

By Damian Van Denburgh

Making a space for literature.

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UK’s Orange Prize nominees announced

By Damian Van Denburgh

The best in women's fiction.

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Books Review

The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq

The continuing decline of Western Civilization.

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Books Review

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

hitRECord

Short shorts born of the worldwide web.

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Bed

David Whitehouse

Home is where the bed is.

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Books News

The Flame Alphabet trailer - A work of art on its own

By Anna Graizbord

Get spooked in three minutes.

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Other People We Married

Emma Straub

Brooklyn funny girl lightens the darkness.

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Culture Profile

Podcasts

By Anna Graizbord

Downloadable audio programs characterized by their magnified level of intimacy.

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Books Review

Lamb

Bonnie Nadzam

A harrowing headtrip.

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Books Review

The Orange Eats Creeps

Grace Krilanovich

Teen vampire hobo junkie looks for her long lost sister.

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Lightning Rods

Helen DeWitt

Sex in the workplace takes on a whole new meaning.

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Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

Guilt is in the eye of the beholder.

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Bad Marie

Marcy Dermansky

Nice girls finish last.

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Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Family portrait – with hurricane.

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Driving on the Rim

Thomas McGuane

The legacy of Camus in small town Montana.

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Beautiful Children

Charles Bock

What happens in Vegas isn’t all glitter.

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Three Delays

Charlie Smith

Love is a drug in this romantic picaresque.

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Mr. Peanut

Adam Ross

A postmodern marital noir.

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Orientation and Other Stories

Daniel Orozco

You are not your job.

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Robin Black

A thoughtful short story debut.

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Zazen

Vanessa Veselka

A dystopian vision matched by a dark new voice in… >>

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Room

Emma Donoghue

A young woman and her son make a break for… >>

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JUICE!

Ishmael Reed

JUICE! is a bitter mouthful.

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The Illumination

Kevin Brockmeier

It hurts so bright.

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The Great Night

Chris Adrian

The mortal world collides with the immortal.

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Pulse

Julian Barnes

Strong, but uneven.

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Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

Two stories about two sets of mourners don’t quite make… >>

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I Curse the River of Time

Per Petterson

Mom’s dying, the wife is leaving, but memories stay put.

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What I Loved

Siri Hustvedt

A dark tale of overlapping New York families, arts, and… >>

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The Lover’s Dictionary

David Levithan

A structurally pleasing ode to love and language.

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Monkeys

Susan Minot

A family of nine becomes a family of eight in… >>

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Open City

Teju Cole

Open City is a fascinating, impressive first novel.

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Gryphon

Charles Baxter

Baxter brings the mythic to the Midwest with Gryphon.

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Visitation

Jenny Erpenbeck

A powerful meditation on time, history, and family.

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Books List

Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves

By Tracy O’Neill

A pedophile with a redundant name preys on a young… >>

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The Brothers Ashkenazi

Israel Joshua Singer

A missing gem of literature is restored.

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By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham

A middle-aged man discovers the beastly truths of beauty when… >>

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The Clash of Images

Abdelfattah Kilito

A mesmerizing glimpse into Morocco, old and new.

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Critical Mob’s Top 10 Books of 2010

By Damian Van Denburgh

2010 was a year of turmoil, and our Best of… >>

Books Review

The Safety of Objects

A. M. Homes

Homes stuns with bleak visions of American life.

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Great House

Nicole Krauss

Four narrators and zero climax make for a tedious portrayal… >>

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Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Jim Shepard

Legendary Greeks and young American geeks come alive under the… >>

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Jernigan

David Gates

Misery never sounded as good as it does in this… >>

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Palo Alto

James Franco

Not as bad as you’d think… sorry, schadenfreuders.

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Self Portraits: Fictions

Frederic Tuten

A surreal and tender collection narrating all the lives a… >>

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Stories in the Worst Way

Gary Lutz

A wordsmith cobbles together awe-inspiring sentences but sometimes falls short… >>

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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

Justin Taylor

Not quite attuned to the true voices of Generation Y.

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The Quick and the Dead

Joy Williams

Charmingly morbid young girls’ lives tangle strangely following the deaths… >>

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Thumbsucker

Walter Kirn

A thumb-sucking, pill-popping, Bible-toting joyride through middle-American ennui.

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Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

By Tracy O’Neill

Before these writers became literary rockstars, they nine-to-fived in hospitals,… >>

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Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse

The past overpowers the present in Aliss at the Fire.

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Schemers and dreamers populate this tableau of feudal Pakistan.

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The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

An epic sci-fi thriller featuring bombs, ninjas, and a smart… >>

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One More Story: Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode

Ingo Schulze

Germany’s literary golden boy makes a moral call to arms… >>

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The Shawl

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick contributes a dense and accomplished gem to the… >>

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The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz

An hallucinatory tableau of life in Drogobych, Poland.

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The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

Love and literature are the life-blood of this remarkable novel.

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Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart

A super funny, not-quite sad love story for the Facebook… >>

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Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen

Love and doppelgangers receive a psychological examination in this playful… >>

Books Profile

Joyce Carol Oates

By Tracy O’Neill

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

A demon child acts as her sister’s keeper in… >>

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The Sweet Hereafter

Russell Banks

A small town grieves after a tragic bus crash.

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Jesus’ Son

Denis Johnson

Mind-altering drugs take center stage in this boozy collection of… >>

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Fast Lanes

Jayne Anne Phillips

Seven short stories ironically attain a sense of cohesion through… >>

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At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O’Brien

A writer writes about a writer writing, and literature literally… >>

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You Remind Me of Me

Dan Chaon

A Midwestern epic depicting the reconnection of two brothers separated… >>

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Willoughby & the Moon

Greg Foley

An eye-popping kid-tested, parent-ogled picture book.

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What He's Poised to Do

Ben Greenman

Snail mail makes a comeback in these short stories.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

A refreshing take on the mystery genre, complete with a… >>

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American Salvage

Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage seeks redemption in despair.

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Women on War

By Damian Van Denburgh

Whether driving ambulances, reporting on the persecution of Nazi criminals,… >>

Books Profile

City Lights Books

By Damian Van Denburgh

Proof that art, activism, and commerce can mix.

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Small Is Beautiful: Independent Presses

By Damian Van Denburgh

For decades, the independent press has been a crucial component… >>

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Zachary Mason

A debut novelist/computer scientist experiments with Greek lore.

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Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

A wonderfully compressed vision of a man destined for loneliness.

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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

Breece D’J Pancake

A posthumous gem.

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Maile Meloy

A sad little world in which the only requirements for… >>

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Tiny Titans: Young Heroes of Children’s Literature

By Tracy O’Neill

When you're a kid, most time is spent wishing you… >>

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The Body

Hanif Kureishi

Botox, boob jobs, and butt implants? These seem the stuff… >>

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

A New Jersey golden boy loses hope when his daughter… >>

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William Gaddis

By Damian Van Denburgh

A giant of contemporary fiction.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

By Damian Van Denburgh

Young lion makes good.

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Dave Eggers

By Ranjani Gopalarathinam

Laden with inside jokes and revelatory tangents, Eggers’s prose style… >>