Jillian Quint
Content by Jillian Quint
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Fans riding high from Jennifer Egan’s critically acclaimed The Keep have much to look forward to in her new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, which turns away from
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The family vacation has been the subject of many a comedic essay and Chevy Chase film, but in Mark Haddon’s new book, it gets both the literary and psychological treatment.
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Benjamin Black’s previous mysteries—all set in 1950s Dublin—have been lauded for their tight pacing, intelligent plotting and ambient setting.
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How does it feel to be immortalized in fiction by a parent? That’s the central question of Mr Toppit, British author Charles Elton’s debut.
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To say that Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey’s newest novel, is prodigiously researched is perhaps to miss the point.
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In Lydia Millet’s 2008 novel, How the Dead Dream, she introduced readers to T., a troubled real estate d
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Readers of The Sisters Brothers will hardly be surprised to learn that it has been optioned for a film.
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The Night Circus is the story of two magicians who each s
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Just when the publishing world is ready to assert that nothing good ever comes out of the slush pile, a talent like Stephen Kelman comes along.
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Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts, a new collection edited by Michael Taeckens, offers flashes of insight from well-known w
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When Helen Oyeyemi’s first novel, The Icarus Girl, hit shelves back in 2006, it was clear the Niger
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Born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Adam Ross was a child actor who appeared in the 1979 film The Seduction of Joe Tynan with Alan Alda and Meryl Streep.
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Anna North's dark, gripping and wildly creative debut, America Pacifica, goes where few Iowa Writers' Workshop grads have gone before: a futuristic end-of-days setting where the buildings are made of sea-fiber and solvent-huffing hoodlums roam the streets. Still, North's story of a young girl in search of her mother (and her island's history) is remarkably universal, with characters as real those found in any contemporary fiction.
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At the start of Monica Ali’s third novel, In the Kitchen, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot fears he has bitten off more than he can chew.
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Inadvertent culpability. Suburban insanity. Personal and familial redemption. Such are the subjects of A.M.
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In his third novel, Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman deftly and unabashedly walks the line between literary and genre fiction, creating a world of both fantasy and gritty psychological
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Do we need language? To what extent is identity tied to expression, and to what extent is it something innate, preverbal?
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Benjamin Percy’s first novel, The Wilding, exhibits the broad range of ambition expected of the debut writer: a keen and almost preening attention to language, a careful considera
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One of the most anticipated novels of the summer, Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone is a delight.
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In the wake of the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton’s birth, there has been much discussion of the writer, from Jonathan Franzen’s polarizing New Yorker piece to the inevitab
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Wickedly funny yet refreshingly hopeful, A.M. Homes’ latest book is a picaresque rollercoaster of a story.
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Fans of J.K. Rowling, Susanna Clarke and all forms of magical realism—rejoice.
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Teddy Wayne’s Kapitoil is a startlingly funny, intelligent and poignant pre-9/11 novel that one can only read with a post-9/11 sensibility.
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Benjamin Black, the alter ego of Irish literary author John Banville, returns with A Death in Summer, his fourth detective novel featuring pathologist/amateur detective Garret Quirke.
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Irene America, the protagonist of Louise Erdrich’s 13th novel, is a woman whose identity has never been entirely her own.
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In Jonathan Lethem’s latest offering, readers are once again thrust into a genre-bending, category-defying and humorously disjointed New York City.
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Peter Orner is the type of novelist creative writing students aspire to be: contemplative, astute, equally interested in comedy and pain, governed by a dedication to characterization and descriptio
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While the master punster might consider himself a-word winning and totally wit the times, apparently the trend in contemporary humor is to maintain that we’ve long ago out-<
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The challenges of historical fiction are plentiful—how to freely imagine a person who really lived, how to impart modern sensibility to a bygone era, how to do your research without exactly s
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If you went near a British tabloid in the fall of 2000, chances are you followed the disappearance of Lucie Blackman with curiosity.
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The follow-up to Monique Truong’s stunning first novel, The Book of Salt, proves the best-selling author has not only staying power, but also a wealth of interests and experiences
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In the wake of World War I, on a remote island off the coast of Australia, lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabel make a life-altering choice: to keep and raise a foundling child who is not theirs. The repercussions of this decision shape M.L. Stedman’s stunning debut novel.
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Charles Elton’s funny, strange and often surprisingly insightful debut, Mr.
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Lorrie Moore fans are a patient bunch.
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God. Faith. Creation. The ability to receive love. These may seem like concerns better suited to a philosopher than a 10-year-old girl. Yet in The Land of Decoration, readers are introduced to such heady concepts through the eyes of a child—and the result is both affecting and profound.
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Adam Ross’ stunningly dark debut, is, on its surface, a compelling thriller, and at its core, a grisly psychological and postmodern probe, a story that takes as its forebears both Scott Turow and Italo Calvino.
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At the start of the fifth novel by PEN/Faulkner Award-winner
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On the last page of Shira Nayman’s dark and probing psychological thriller, Dr.
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