When word got out that Hanya Yanagihara had a new novel coming out, the running joke was to schedule therapy sessions around its release date. Her previous novel, the Booker-shortlisted…
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It feels as though environmental awareness is slowly starting to catch up with Joy Williams. The American author has been sounding the climate klaxon for decades: in her short…
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It’s 1967, and the tendrils of the sexual revolution are reaching beyond the limits of London. Forty-year-old Phyllis Fischer is married to Roger, a senior civil servant in the Foreign…
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It’s no surprise that Sarah Moss is among the first authors to take up the gauntlet of coronavirus. “Epidemiology is particularly interesting to novelists, whose characters imagine themselves autonomous but are…
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Published a week before 9/11, it’s hard to believe that it’s been two decades since Jonathan Franzen wrote The Corrections, his National Book Award–winning meisterwerk. Through the story of the fictional…
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How long does it take to shake an ex? According to Lucy Barton, the heroine of now three books by Elizabeth Strout, marriage is a life sentence. Even divorce is…