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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

  • Elizabeth Word Gutting
  • June 12, 2012
Anyone who aspires to write will find the story of Ben Fountain—and the story of how his first novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, came to be —both inspiring and heart-rending. Fountain began writing fiction at…
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Sound by T.M. Wolf

  • Catherine Tung
  • June 11, 2012
Novelists rarely engage in typographic adventures. There are exceptions, some of impressive vintage. Laurence Sterne depicts death with a black page in Tristram Shandy. Late-twentieth-century Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (also…
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Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton

  • Alexis Orgera
  • June 8, 2012
It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those…
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Love, InshAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi

  • Jessica Freeman-Slade
  • June 7, 2012
Love, InshAllah, a new collection of essays about romance, love, and sex by Muslim American women, proves that love and faith can live in the same house.
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The Silhouettes, by Lily Ladewig

  • Jeff Alessandrelli
  • June 6, 2012
I’m fat. No matter where it stations itself then—against the sunset, unto the dawn, in the most awake and aware of lights at the gas station or drive-thru—my silhouette is…
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No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer

  • Nina Schuyler
  • June 5, 2012
Nina Schuyler reviews No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer.
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Farther Away, by Jonathan Franzen

  • Ben Pfeiffer
  • June 4, 2012
Bibliophysicists now speculate that no less than three parallel versions of Jonathan Franzen can coexist at any given moment, and the variant, some say, could be much higher. This assortment…
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Enigma and Light, by David Mutschleener

  • David Peak
  • June 1, 2012
Every once in a while, when I’m reading something, sorting through the words in a half-daze, my brain will just click. I’ll get it. I’ll take on an understanding of…
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The Last Repatriate by Mathew Salesses

  • Kyle Winkler
  • May 31, 2012
There’s an inherent need to stitch together a war veteran’s memory because narratives made of memories are otherwise fragmented. This is the tragedy of a war story—that the wholeness will…
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Love, An Index, by Rebecca Lindenberg

  • Spenser Davis
  • May 30, 2012
Love, An Index tells a beautiful and heartbreaking story, and at the heart of it is some of the most original and interesting poetry that I’ve come across in a…
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Us by Michael Kimball

  • J. A. Tyler
  • May 29, 2012
A beautiful wrought novel now re-released, Michael Kimball’s Us tells the story of death from three divergent angles.
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The Listeners, By Leni Zumas

  • Sarah Marshall
  • May 28, 2012
Reading Leni Zumas’s debut novel The Listeners puts one in mind of the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919. Not because the novel is messy—it isn’t—but because it contains the same…
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