Jessica Inman
Content by Jessica Inman
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If you ever thought of the 18th century as stuffy, you were wrong. Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore have brought the era to life with their first collaborative novel, Blindspot.
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Fifty years after Irène Némirovsky died at Auschwitz in 1942, her daughter discovered a treasure trove of the author’s lost works.
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In New World Monkeys, former advertising copywriter Nancy Mauro offers a debut novel that cannily and artfully shows the wild side of human nature.
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Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites, the central characters in Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, are busy coming of age in 1950s Cuba. K.C.
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Writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - whose A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction last year - has brought us another novel full of beaut
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Some first novels give the feeling of having grown in a chrysalis, only to emerge at the very height of readiness.
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In the opening scene of Jamie Ford’s debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 50-something Henry Lee watches as a crowd gather
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In Company of Liars, British author Karen Maitland makes her U.S. debut with a novel that tips its hat deeply to The Canterbury Tales, executed with stunning skill and precision.
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Sharon Kay Penman transcends beloved-author status: among lovers of historical fiction, she is cherished.
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Girl with a Pearl Earring made Tracy Chevalier a household name in the historical fiction world.
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Oscar Casares’ Amigoland, his first novel and a follow-up to his much-acclaimed book of short stories, Brownsville, is a liberating journey full of warmth and color.
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If you pick up The Book of Night Women, you might lose a little sleep.
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The single-author short story collection has its devoted fans.
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Sometimes you can have it both ways. Maile Meloy’s new collection of short stories, for example, is an exhibition of both substance and style.
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From novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips, an acclaimed voice on identity and race, comes another historical exploration, one that easily lands among his most timely and important work.
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Elisa Albert's 2006 collection of short stories, How This Night Is Different, established her as a sharp, welcome literary voice.
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