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When Mike Pence turned to shake my hand Saturday morning in New Hampshire, one of the most...
We haven't done one of these in quite some time. Each clue is the first sentences of...
In what feels like four novels in one, James Baldwin covers everything he knows about how internalized...
A recent book on the art world did not exactly rock mine. But "Leaving Brooklyn" from 1989-...
The human condition includes the need to be heard, and for many of us who can type,...
A rollicking posthumous novel with a very Jewish punchline for its parable: Yes, everyone is kind of...
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó's haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and...
Taking time for Paul Harding's Pulitzer winning first novel about a clock repairman and horologist for whom...
This 1995 novel by Sarah Schulman is a good reminder of a time when people moved to...
Like fairy tales for mad children, the stories of Leonora Carrington are as packed with strangeness and...
Primo Levi is best remembered as one of the great novelists of the Holocaust; he was one...
In an era of boring mass media, we need creative weirdness more than ever. "Music is Over!"...
There are a handful of verses in the Koran and also a book by Salman Rushdie called...
A recovered Constance DeJong novel from late 70s NYC that overflows its banks and exhausts all possibilities...
"Desktop covid dividers and a refrigerator was “to be recycled.” But the five books deemed inappropriate were...
Berg seems to go through a crisis of his own. Does he really want to kill this...
Turgenev's first novel tells of a common type: the brilliant intellectual who could have changed the world,...
Because, like all great books on music, David Keenan is really writing about us, nudging us in...
It's hard to write about the South. Harry Crews's first novel took a tone somewhere between the...
