Rebecca Shapiro
Content by Rebecca Shapiro
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Few young writers are as lauded as Dinaw Mengestu, whose debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, an elegiac portrait of an immigrant grocer in Washington, D.C., has been compa
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Few authors are as synonymous with New York City as Pete Hamill, so it is fitting that the Brooklyn-bred darling of The Post and The Daily News returns with a story as frenetic, c
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Since Madame Bovary first left her stable marriage for the arms of Rodolfo in Flaubert’s classic, a basic adultery narrative has been repeated in countless novels, films and television shows:
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Sisters Van and Linny Luong, born in America to Vietnamese refugees, have never seen eye to eye.
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There have been countless novels over the years about the rampant wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States during the 19th and early 20th century.
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If anyone could be considered an heir to Vladimir Nabokov’s legendary narrative trickery, it would be Paul Auster—a master of literary illusion whose novels have long been lauded for th
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Literary wisdom has it that it is often easiest to write what you know, but with his debut novel, investment banker Amor Towles couldn’t have strayed farther from his own life.
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Countless children of the 1960s rebelled against their straitlaced parents by turning to rock music, sexual freedom and, perhaps most importantly, drugs.
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An omega point, as defined by philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, is the supreme point of complexity and consciousness to which the universe is always striving.
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J. Courtney Sullivan made a name for herself with a smart, incredibly resonant debut, Commencement, about four unlikely friends during their college years at Smith and the turbulent years that followed. In her sophomore effort, Sullivan turns from friendships to family, writing with the same warmth and nuance, but pushing her characters further to create an even more complex and satisfying whole.
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In literature, particularly prominent settings are often described as functioning as an additional character in a book.
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Paul Auster, with his characteristically masterful postmodern experimentation, once again proves himself equally adept at character development and emotional depth.
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In 1996, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton published her iconic book on child-rearing, It Takes a Village, which emphasized the necessity not only of good parenting, but also of un
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When April, Celia, Bree and Sally arrive at Smith College in the late 1990s and move onto the same freshman hall, it doesn’t seem likely that they’ll end up as friends.
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In Paris, during the fall of 1979, 15-year-old Charlotte Sanders is hesitant to grow up.
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David E.
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Korean-American author Samuel Park grew up listening to his mother’s stories about her life in South Korea in the aftermath of the Korean War, when the country teetered on the brink of modern
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On the surface, Molly Fox’s Birthday, originally published in the U.K.
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J.M. Coetzee’s magnificent Summertime is a work of fiction.
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Hannah Pittard has big shoes to fill: Her first novel, a dark story of adolescence gone awry, echoes Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides and his own haunting debut, The Virgin Suicides
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Cristina García, the much-lauded author of Dreaming in Cuban, has been most frequently compared to Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende.
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Thirteen-year-old Mathilda Savitch doesn’t see the world like most people.
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