In She Come By It Natural, the journalist Sarah Smarsh tracks Dolly Parton’s trajectory from being reduced to “the punch line of a boob joke” to “a universally beloved icon”. Now,…
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Following his International Dylan Thomas Prize-winning short-story collection, Lot (2019), Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is what he calls “a gay slacker dramedy”. With exquisite attention to the ever-shifting spaces between…
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At the age of eighty-five, Vivian Gornick feels she still has unfinished business. “The effort required to attain some semblance of an integrated self”, she writes, is “the task of a…
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Part intro to Russian literature, part musings on craft, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is all pleasure. Best known for his surrealist short stories and Man Booker…
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The first short story Shirley Hazzard ever wrote was plucked from the slush pile of the New Yorker by William Maxwell, the magazine’s long-standing fiction editor. Maxwell, who would go on…
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Phil Klay’s first novel takes a line from Seamus Heaney’s ‘Kinship’ as an epigraph: “Report us fairly, how we slaughter / for the common good.” It’s a theme continued…