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Review of Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex: “The Wet Hex is, at its core, a fractured narrative of becoming.”
Shondaland
Stunning review for Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust: “One of the most ambitious dystopian novels to hit shelves this year.”
Washington Post
Lidia Yuknavitch’s dreamy new novel Thrust delivers a mind-blowing critique of America’s ideals.
San Francisco Chronicle
Review of Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City, a new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution and a girl caught in it
People
Amy Bloom sits down to share her journey after her husband, Brian, chose to die by assisted suicide.
LA Review of Books
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”
Publishers Weekly
Read up on U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale, a translation of a medieval English debate poem.
LA Review
Review of Frank Bidart’s Against Silence: “our greatest living poet of the flesh assessing fear of flesh’s end, of desire’s flame dimming to mere flicker.”
New York Times
Donald Antrim’s One Friday In April included on this list of 9 New Books We Recommend This Week.
Time
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and Torrey Peters‘ Detransition, Baby included on The 10 Best Fiction Books […]