New Books in Literature
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Diane Cook, "The New Wilderness" (Harper, 2020)
"The New Wilderness" (Harper, 2020) is a poignant portrait of a mother and daughter fleeing the polluted cities of a near-future dystopia for a hand-to-mouth existence in the country’s last undeveloped tract....
34 min
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Mark Edward Langley, "Death Waits in the Dark" ...
While Arthur Nakai is attending a wake for a man he considered a brother with whom he served in the U.S. Marines, he receives a call from an old friend whose sons have just been murdered...
42 min
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Premee Mohamed, "Beneath The Rising" (Solaris, ...
Premee Mohamed's Beneath the Rising (Solaris, 2020) is simultaneously a far-flung horror story and an exploration of an intimate relationship....
24 min
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Catherine Adel West, "Saving Ruby King: A Novel...
Two south side Chicago families are bound together by a violence-infused past...
28 min
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Assaf Gavron, "The Hilltop" (Scribner, 2015)
On a rocky hilltop stands Ma’aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank...
50 min
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Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison B...
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...
53 min
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Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...
49 min
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Jack Fredrickson "The Black Cage: A Milo Rigg M...
It’s bitter winter in Chicago, and disgraced crime reporter Milo Rigg wakes up every night dreaming that his wife is calling to him from a black cage...
35 min
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Madeline Ashby, "ReV: The Machine Dynasty, Book...
"ReV:" shows readers the results of a final face-off between self-replicating humanoid robots and humans...
54 min
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Bryn Turnbull, "The Woman before Wallis" (Mira ...
Most modern Americans can identify the names Wallace Simpson and Gloria Vanderbilt. But Simpson was not the first divorced American to win the heart of Great Britain’s future if short-reigned King Edward VII...
38 min
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Yxta Maya Murray, "The World Doesn't Work that ...
The short stories in this excellent collection are inspired by recent headlines and court cases in America....
34 min
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Melissa Faliveno, "Tomboyland: Essays" (Topple ...
Faliveno examines a vast array of intersecting (and intersectional!) human experiences...
64 min
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Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathem...
There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming.' This is one of them.
54 min
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John DeSimone, "Road to Delano" (Rare Bird Book...
It's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization....
29 min
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Laura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind T...
Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman...
32 min
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Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place...
52 min
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Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the ...
Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...
37 min
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Elsa Hart, "The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne" (Min...
Lady Cecily Kay has just returned to England when she encounters Sir Barnaby Mayne. It’s 1703...
33 min
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Edward A. Farmer, "Pale: A Novel" (Blackstone, ...
An interview with Edward A. Farmer
27 min
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Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Var...
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world...
31 min
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Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, ...
"Beneath the Rising" combines horror, science fiction and fantasy in its portrayal of the complicated friendship of Nick and Joanna (Johnny)...
30 min
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Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel...
Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered....
36 min
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Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Souther...
Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...
35 min
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Chanelle Benz, "The Gone Dead" (Ecco, 2019)
Told from several perspectives, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 2019) is a story about family and memory, justice for those who were never given a chance, and some of the wounds caused by racism in America...
35 min
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Nancy Thayer, "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Balla...
Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...
63 min