Drew Hart
Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
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Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is simply dizzying, filled with texture, startling imagery, language in multiple tongues (keep Google within reach!), and it succeeds in most every respect.
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Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel does a bang-up job of capturing the edgy and zany milieu of the early ’90s.
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An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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When did we last see a novel of such stimulating complexity that’s so downright hopeful too?
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You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.
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You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.
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This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.
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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2023
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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