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Steven Price creates a mid-twentieth century world that is filled with the same kind of conflicts that Lampedusa himself confronted in writing The Leopard, his great novel about nineteenth century Italy.
Read MoreWe root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.
Read MoreThis is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
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What makes this book so necessary is that these are writers willing to state realities that members of both parties prefer to keep under the rug.
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We now have a book that virtually closes the circle on Hemingway’s women, a biography that will be treasured by the author’s fans and scholars.
Read MoreAustin Ratner’s follow up to “The Jump Artist” is an an exuberant, terrific novel — for its weaknesses, as well as its strengths.
Read MoreOur demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.
Read MoreThis is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.
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Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century
In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.
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