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Filmmaker/novelist Miranda July writes about a mom who goes on an adventure in ‘All Fours’
FICTION: Midway through her life, the narrator takes a detour from the expected into an unbounded exploration of desire.
May 7, 2024
Books
‘The Tiger’s Wife’ author Téa Obreht is back with ‘magical’ ‘The Morningside’
FICTION: In this climate fiction novel, Silvia and her mother immigrate to an inundated city and try to uncover its secrets.
March 12, 2024
Books
Kristin Hannah’s novel asks us to honor ‘The Women’ who served in Vietnam
FICTION: With cinematic detail, she dramatizes the life of an Army nurse before, during and after the war.
January 29, 2024
Books
Review: 'The Storm We Made'
FICTION: In 1935, a Malayan mother spies against the British, then is crushed by the consequences when Japanese troops invade her country.
December 27, 2023
Books
'Flores and Miss Paula' are a mother and daughter who try to connect in 'dishy' novel
FICTION: In contemporary Brooklyn, loss binds a mother and daughter but secrets keep them apart.
December 13, 2023
Books
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham charts a family's collapse, on one specific 'Day'
FICTION: Across three Aprils, a family splinters as the COVID-19 pandemic traps them in place.
November 7, 2023
Books
In colonial-era Malaysia, love and betrayal drive Booker Prize contender 'House of Doors'
FICTION: Tan Twan Eng has novelist William Somerset Maugham visiting an old friend and uncovering forbidden love.
October 12, 2023
Books
Review: Two communities unite in 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'
FICTION: In the 1920s, Black and Jewish families rely on one another in James McBride's entertaining novel.
August 3, 2023
Books
'Flores and Miss Paula' are a mother and daughter who try to connect in 'dishy' novel
FICTION: In contemporary Brooklyn, loss binds a mother and daughter but secrets keep them apart.
December 13, 2023
Books
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham charts a family's collapse, on one specific 'Day'
FICTION: Across three Aprils, a family splinters as the COVID-19 pandemic traps them in place.
November 7, 2023
Books
In colonial-era Malaysia, love and betrayal drive Booker Prize contender 'House of Doors'
FICTION: Tan Twan Eng has novelist William Somerset Maugham visiting an old friend and uncovering forbidden love.
October 12, 2023
Books
Review: Two communities unite in 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store'
FICTION: In the 1920s, Black and Jewish families rely on one another in James McBride's entertaining novel.
August 3, 2023
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