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Jun 18, 2026
We find this passage in a letter written by John Updike to his girlfriend Mary Entwistle Pennington on April 1st, 1952, sent from the farmhouse he was visiting in Plowville,...
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Jun 2, 2026
Hilary Mantel sold an awful lot of books, but what is her literary legacy? Since her Wolf Hall trilogy, historical fiction has earned itself more space on the “New...
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May 11, 2026
“Never love a wild thing,” Holly Golightly advises. Because “you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until...
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Apr 27, 2026
Ross Barkan’s fourth novel, Colossus, is a thriller. Arriving only a year after his longer, panoramic New York story, Glass Century, it carries on a keen interest in...
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Jan 28, 2026
GEORGE SAUNDERS’S NEW “NOVEL” is 174 pages long and has no chapters—or, if you like, is one long chapter. Both it and the 60-page title story in his 2022...
Jun 18, 2026We find this passage in a letter written by John Updike to his girlfriend Mary Entwistle Pennington on April 1st, 1952, sent from the farmhouse he was visiting in Plowville,...
Jun 2, 2026Hilary Mantel sold an awful lot of books, but what is her literary legacy? Since her Wolf Hall trilogy, historical fiction has earned itself more space on the “New...
May 11, 2026“Never love a wild thing,” Holly Golightly advises. Because “you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until...
Jan 28, 2026GEORGE SAUNDERS’S NEW “NOVEL” is 174 pages long and has no chapters—or, if you like, is one long chapter. Both it and the 60-page title story in his 2022...