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Marie NDiaye offers rewarding study in identity in new novel ‘Ladivine’

May 9, 2019 at 6:07 p.m.

The French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in France since she was first published at age 18 by Jerome Lindon. During his half...

‘Eligible’ by Curtis Sittenfeld stumbles in retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’

May 9, 2019 at 6:05 p.m.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen's novels, insofar as they concern women's efforts to find rich, witty, handsome husbands, are "chick lit." Fair enough, but as an...

"The Winged Histories" by Sofia Samatar is closer to being a companion novel than a sequel to "A Stranger in Olondria."

‘The Winged Histories’: Sofia Samatar returns to Olondria

May 9, 2019 at 6:03 p.m.

Sofia Samatar has called her second novel, "The Winged Histories," her "farewell to epic fantasy," though devotees of her 2013 debut "A Stranger in Olondria" might justly cry that she...

Helen Oyeyemi’s originality shines in ‘What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours’

May 9, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

"(T)o whom can someone of good conscience give such an object as a key?" asks a character named Rowan halfway through Helen Oyeyemi's story collection, "What Is Not Yours Is...

"Constance Fenimore Woolson" by Anne Boyd Rioux, a biography of Woolson, gives the 19th century novelist some of the due she's been lacking thus far.

‘Constance Fenimore Woolson’ gives 19th century novelist second look

May 9, 2019 at 5:59 p.m.

Constance Fenimore Woolson is one of those names that perpetually bobs around the periphery of Victorian studies, one of what Nathaniel Hawthorne infamously called "that damned mob of scribbling women"...

’13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl’ addresses body shaming through sharp protagonist

May 9, 2019 at 5:59 p.m.

Mona Awad's debut story collection, "13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl," should come with a trigger warning for all the fat girls, skinny girls, ugly girls, slutty girls...

In "The Blue Line," Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who survived six years as a kidnaping victim, pens a novel that calls upon some of her lessons of captivity.

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt details her kidnapping in novel ‘The Blue Line’

May 9, 2019 at 5:58 p.m.

It's always tempting to read a best-selling memoirist's first novel through the lens of her past self-revelations, but in the case of Ingrid Betancourt's fiction debut "The Blue Line," the...

Review: ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ by Samantha Hunt

May 9, 2019 at 5:56 p.m.

Samantha Hunt's third novel, "Mr. Splitfoot," is an American Gothic fever dream set in an upstate New York populated by spiritualists, cultists, paranoiacs and grotesques. It is also essentially a...

Diane Williams’ latest story collection ‘Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine’ shines

May 9, 2019 at 5:58 p.m.

The epigraph of Diane Williams' new collection of funny and alarming stories, "Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine," comes from a pamphlet called "What You Should Know About Fortune-Telling," written in...

Review: ‘The Past’ by Tessa Hadley

May 9, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

One might reasonably expect a book called "The Past" to be about either nostalgia or trauma. Though it has a bit of both, Tessa Hadley's sixth novel is about neither....

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