A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.
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Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.
Review: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor continues to explore Black, queer Midwest life.
Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)
Strange, precise and elusive poetry.
Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
It’s about whales.
Review: The Sweetness Of Water by Nathan Harris
A heartfelt story of rebuilding a ruined society.
Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.
Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.
Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.
Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.
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