‘When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.” So begins William Faulkner’s 1930 short story, ‘A …
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‘When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.” So begins William Faulkner’s 1930 short story, ‘A …
The bulletin that crackled over the police radio deep in Iowa corn country began innocuously enough: A farmer had spotted …
Please don’t do this. Don’t write a novel about trying to write a novel. It’s cliche and insular and lazy. …
‘How will the last generation know it is the last generation?” someone asks in Jenny Offill’s anxious and funny new …
The coronavirus outbreak feels like something out of a science fiction – or horror – novel. Indeed, novelists have been …
‘Milkman,” Anna Burns’ extraordinary third novel, won the Man Booker Prize in 2018, clearing the flight path for this first …
In 1999, Helen Fremont published a best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir called ‘After Long Silence.” The book described how she and …
‘I just hate throwing things away.” Tom Ecker’s distaste for waste accounts for the expansive and varied record of his …
Spring’s early arrival leaves us less time to curl up inside with a good book but more time to read …
Leila Aboulela’s latest novel, the elegant ‘Bird Summons,” gives mischievous treatment to the classic road trip narrative. The Sudanese Aboulela, …
Once upon a time – long before everyone knew that millennials are a bunch of Instagramming snowflakes who demand trophies …
S.S. McClure feared being held back by his ‘cursed mediocre versatility.” Ida Tarbell resolved to be free; it followed, in …
In the late 1860s, about a decade after the town was founded, a teenage girl named Emma A. Morgan came …
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