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It also brings promising fiction debuts from writers such as the late Anthony Veasna So and poet Melissa Lozada-Oliva.
Heres everything you gotta get you through this last stretch of indoor time.
This quick-witted, trenchant debut novel starts like a superhero origin story.
At night he returns to the three-story brownstone in gentrifying Bed-Stuy where he lives with his mother.
What follows is a harrowing tale that operates at the fraught intersection of capitalism, race, and class.
Strange noises come from upstairs.
And she begins to realize shes on a countdown to someone discovering who she really is.
What would have happened if Jane Eyre hadnotbeen a naive innocent with a heart of gold?
Grab this page-turner and find out.
But its Owusus life story that will burrow into you.
This is a book that will shake you to your core.
When Ames gets his lover/boss, Katarina, pregnant, things are flipped upside down once more.
And keep thinking about them long after you finish reading.
A quietly thrilling addition to what I hope becomes a flourishing Ladee Hubbardverse.
Molly Young
Yangs devastating history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution has been long in the making.
This was gaslighting at a national scale.
One of many excellent books released by Two Dollar Radio, a family-run publisher out of Ohio.
(Honestly … that tracks.)
A story about religion, sexuality, food, and feeling your fucked-up feelings.
Id wager that he sets down the best first lines of any living writer.
Madison Malone Kircher
Reading Patricia Lockwood raises questions.
Questions such as, How can a person understand both herself and the world with such clarity?
Lockwoods first novel is as crystalline, witty, and brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism.
And if youre a ride-or-die Ishiguro reader (what other kind is there?
), you wont be disappointed.
His mission, if he chooses to accept it, is to survive.
Fernandezs upcoming book,The Twilight Zone, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is just as eerie.
Moody and textured,Fierce Poisecelebrates, and mimics, Frankenthalers sweetly explosive paintings.
She decides to take the chance, and soon finds herself wondering: Whos corrupting whom?
Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.
But as the relationship deepens, fissures begin to form.
Gabrielle Sanchez
Jhumpa Lahiri craves difficulty.
How else to explain the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelists midcareer pivot to working in Italian?
Now we getWhereabouts, a novel Lahiri wrote in Italian then translated to English herself.
Despentes writes like Armistead Maupin, but about aging Gen-Xers instead of hippies and New Agers.
Molly Young
To write on violence especially violence against women is a hazardous task.
Lingering on sexual violence could spectacularize, or even reenact it.
Hillary Kelly
When D.H. Lawrence died in 1930, many critics considered him little better than a glorified pornographer.
Her latest puzzle box of a novel is a surrealist horror story set in the 17th century.
Drawing partly from historical documents, the world Galchen creates feels more than just real.
Tope Folarin
Im a sucker for tales about female friendships that slide into obsession.
Theyre all creepily atmospheric, easy to read without being fluffy, and fun as hell.
But the cast stages a coup: They wantMacbeth.
A wicked mash-up about opioid addiction, Bard nerds, Faustian deals, and a cursed play?
He writes a mean sentence.
Hillary Kelly
Maggie Nelson needs no genre.
Hillary Kelly
Richard Powers does Big well.
Its so expansive it feels like youre watching his characters from space.
Expect soaring prose and wise lessons about the bonds between humans and Mother Earth.
So until October, well be waiting with bated breath for more details and another inevitable round of Franzenfreude.
Miguel Salazar
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