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Jessamine Chan's Chilling Debut Novel
A single mother faces consequences after a bad judgment call in 'The School for Good Mothers.'
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Bisi Adjapon's Searing American Debut
The author's new novel, 'The Teller of Secrets,' her first to be published in the U.S., tells the tale of a young girl in 1960s Ghana defying tradition and forging her own path to womanhood.
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Lisa Harding's Sophomore Novel Comes Stateside
‘Bright Burning Things,’ a new novel from the Irish writer, tackles motherhood and addiction.
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Matthew Pearl's Latest Explores the American Frontier
Matthew Pearl explores the story of the American frontier through the kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s daughter.
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Wole Soyinka Returns
'Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,' the first novel from the Nobel laureate in nearly half a century, is a sensuous and scathing satire of contemporary Nigeria.
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Myriam J.A. Chancy Charts the Reverberations of a Disaster
In her American debut novel, 'What Storm, What Thunder,' the author tells a story of the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
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Anthony Doerr Knows the Power of the Book
In his epic new novel, 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' the Pulitzer Prize–winning author tells the story of an ancient text that connects characters across history.
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Colm Tóibín Is Looking for the Mann
In his new novel, the author blends fact and fiction to tell the story of great German novelist Thomas Mann.
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Maggie Nelson Explores Freedom
With a gimlet eye, the author looks at freedom through the spheres of art, sex, drugs, and climate in 'On Freedom.'
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A Campus Killer Stalks the Pages of This Debut Thriller
In Vera Kurian’s 'Never Saw Me Coming,' a psychological experiment with college students leads to mayhem and murder.
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What Does Freedom Mean? A Debut Novel Is Asking.
In 'The Sweetness of Water,' Nathan Harris writes about the life of two formerly enslaved men after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Kristen Radtke Writes, and Draws, Our Loneliness
In her new graphic nonfiction book, 'Seek You,' Radtke takes a multifaceted look at how alone we are.
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An Art Historian Considers the Art of the Steal
In Cynthia Saltzman’s new book, 'Plunder,' the story of a famous painting illuminates Napoleon’s extensive theft of art.
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Clint Smith's Nonfiction Debut Reckons with History
In 'How the Word Is Passed,' the poet and journalist explores the history of slavery “under our feet.”
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Keith Ridgway's Tales of the City
The author's immersive new novel, 'Shock,' portrays a London neighborhood whose denizens are living on the edge.
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Dawnie Walton Writes a Rockin' Novel
The author's provocative debut chronicles the rise and fall of a biracial 1970s rock duo.
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Maggie Shipstead's Novel Gone 'Round the World
Shipstead’s immersive third novel spans centuries and continents with the story of an aviator and the actor who portrays her.
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Looking for Love with Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro
In his new novel 'Klara and the Sun,' his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, Ishiguro tells the tale of an artificial intelligence longing for human connection.
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Brandon Hobson Digs Deep Into Cherokee Folklore
In his new novel, the author mines Cherokee folk tales to tell a story of generational trauma in Oklahoma.
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Gabriela Garcia's Poetic Multigenerational Debut
The stories of five generations of Latinx women fill the pages of Gabriela Garcia’s expansive and poetic debut novel, 'Of Women and Salt.'
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