Meg Wolitzer. The Female Persuasion. Riverhead Books, 2018. $28.00. In her 2018 novel The Female Persuasion, best-selling writer Meg...

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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Those familiar with Neil Gaiman’s novels American Gods (2001) and Anansi Boys (2005) will know that he is...

On the cover of Until the Cows Come Home, a poetry chapbook by Alain Ginsberg, there’s an illustration of a cow skull sitting in some...

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Moonglow by Michael Chabon I firmly believe that Michael Chabon is one of the greatest American stylists writing today, and for evidence...

Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music by Kazim Ali With several volumes of poetry, books of essays, novels, and works in translation under his...

Anybody by Ari Banias Anybody, Ari Banias’s debut collection, examines our invented understanding of a world we’ve codified with language...

Isadora by Amelia Gray In “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin examines the legacy of the oral storytelling tradition and its print...

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, is a collection of short...

Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy A rare abstract sentence in Maile Meloy’s new novel Do Not Become Alarmed offers a way of...

Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann The thirty-seven poems in Matthew Olzmann’s recent collection, Contradictions in the...

The Return by Hisham Matar During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan...

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...

The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...

Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative...

You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their...

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Close your eyes and imagine Karl Marx. Can you see him? That giant head covered in curly hair, that jolly...

White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is...