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The plight of young girls in slavery-blighted Mexico is the crux of a harrowing novel by Jennifer Clement.
Read MoreThe relationship between an alien queen and a renegade warrior forms the heart of Jae's epic SFF novel set on the desert planet Safara in "Beyond the Red," now in paperback.
Read MoreWoolf’s short fiction is under-appreciated, but in its outpourings of place and feeling we find the style and rhythm that also created her great experimental novels.
Read MoreAll of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreAn eerie atmosphere and finely-watched details are among the strange strengths of Fiona Mozley's odd debut novel Elmet - and among its weaknesses.
Read MoreThe bewildering literary project author Mark Danielewski has undertaken - 27 mammoth and genre-defying novels in one series - continues.
Read MoreThe 22nd in Lee Child’s superlative Jack Reacher series finds him in top form and a first entry from H.B. Lyle promises to be a captivating new addition to the genre.
Read MoreThe latest enormous anthology from Otto Penzler features the dandies of the demimonde, the stylish thieves and ruthless killers of popular fiction.
Read MoreHow can one be both a Jew and a Romanian? This quandary is at the heart of Mihail Sebastian’s brilliant novel For Two Thousand Years, now in a sparkling new translation.
Read MoreMadeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter - getting its first US publication - uses the Khmer Rouge atrocities as a backdrop against which to explore its characters' various losses.
Read MoreRacially charged 1950 Atlanta is the setting for Thomas Mullen's brutal, terrific new crime thriller.
Read MoreThe fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.
Read MoreAn '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"
Read MoreA new novel re-imagines the beloved character of "Ma" from Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books.
Read MoreZinzi Clemmons' much-discussed debut novel blurs the line between memoir and fiction; Britta Böhler reviews What We Lose.
Read MoreAs a new adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel It hits theaters, a critic takes another look at the novel and its underlying conflicts.
Read MoreVeteran translator David Ferry tackles that Mount Everest of the translator's art, Virgil's Aeneid.
Read MoreIt wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.
Read More"The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells gets an authorized sequel in which you-know-who are back for another shot at conquering the Earth.
Read MoreA smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
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