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For Miranda July, Writing Is a True Calling
In her new novel, 'All Fours', the multidisciplinary artist grapples with aging as it relates to desire, gender, and marriage.
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Abir Mukherjee Feels Like an Outsider Looking In
For the author of the forthcoming novel 'Hunted,' abandoning a lucrative finance career to write historical mysteries was more than a career change—it was a way to save his soul.
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Cooking the Books with Sara B. Franklin
With ‘The Editor,’ Franklin sets the record straight about the legacy and life of her friend and mentor, Judith Jones.
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Claire Messud Puts Her Soul on the Page
The author’s latest novel, 'This Strange Eventful History' (Norton, May), chronicles three generations of a pied-noir family—and much of her own family history.
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Maurice Vellekoop Comes Out in a Big Way
The veteran comics creator’s first full-length graphic memoir, ‘I’m So Glad We’ve Had This Time Together’ (Pantheon), is a coming-of-age story mixed with a family history so unsparingly honest that his mother dreaded its publication.
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Erik Larson Is Confronting History’s Demons
The bestselling author’s latest, ‘The Demon of Unrest,’ documents the tense five-month period leading up to the Civil War.
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Justin Taylor’s IP in the End-Times
The author’s latest novel, 'Reboot,' lays bare online gossip, social media, and celebrity memoirs.
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Ana Huang Knows That Sloth Isn’t Sexy
The bestselling author’s latest installment in her Kings of Sin series tackles a decidedly less-than-sexy character flaw.
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Generative AI Will Save Us, Not Destroy Us
AI expert Jerry Kaplan offers a primer on generative artificial intelligence. (Sponsored)
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Ruff Draft
In her first memoir, Milo, Mattie, and Me, Anne Abel describes how rehabilitating an aggressive, frightening dog helped rescue her from her own demons. (Sponsored)
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda Wants to Move Beyond the Rhetoric
For the bestselling author, fiction is a way to explore an increasingly polarized and volatile world.
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Leela Corman Knows Trauma Is Exhausting
The dead speak—and leap into the wrestling ring—in the acclaimed cartoonist's latest graphic novel, 'Victory Parade.'
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Téa Obreht Maps Life’s Uncharted Territories
The Orange Prize winner’s latest is a postapocalyptic coming-of-age fable.
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Writers to Watch: 10 Promising Fiction Debuts, Spring 2024
This season’s slate of notable debut fiction draws on Native American and Igbo lore, Chinese numerology, class divisions across the globe, familial strife, and reparations.
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Anna Quindlen Wants You to Get a Good Life
The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen looks at family, grief, and moving forward after loss.
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Tia Williams’s Wilde Ride
In her latest novel, the bestselling author spins a steamy love story with a speculative twist that celebrates the magic of Harlem’s past and present.
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Xu Zechen on Life in Chinese Cities
Phoenix Publishing and Media Group adds a new anthology of six unusual short stories to its Jiangsu Literature Translated series. (Sponsored)
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Laurie R. King Is Still on the Case
As the author’s Mary Russell series enters its third decade, the latest entry mines new corners of Sherlockian lore and offers glimpses into King’s own life.
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Yangsze Choo's Elegy for an Empire
The author draws on Manchurian folklore, Chinese history, and her own nomadic youth for her latest novel, 'The Fox Wife.'
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Kaveh Akbar's Labor of Love
The poet explores art, death, and sobriety in 'Martyr!'—a debut novel he wrote with a little help from his friends.