“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own” (John 15:19) reads the epigraph of Brandon Taylor’s first short-story collection. Lionel, the central character of the…
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Damon Galgut’s electrifying new novel tracks the travails of the Swart family—“just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans”—over the span of three decades. The story opens in 1986 with Rachel,…
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The title of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), refers to a character who translates ailments for a doctor. Lahiri continued to plumb the pain of first- and…
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“Mothers taste awful,” opens Shalom Auslander’s outrageous new satire. “ . . . gamy and dry, their years seasoned with disappointment and heartbreak”.
Seventh Seltzer is the seventh son in what may be the last Can-Am…
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I had the pleasure of a pilgrimage to Dublin one year for Bloomsday, replete with the requisite pint at Davy Byrne’s, soap from Sweny’s and a Sandycove swim. James Joyce set…
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In Love Orange, her first novel, Natasha Randall, a literary translator of Russian authors (among them Gogol and Dostoevsky), sets out to satirize the digital age.…