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June 2025

Douglas Bauer on Julie Otsuka
Harking back to a book that may be speaking to us now in new ways
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Susan Choi
Susan Choi’s novel begins with actual flashlights, and it goes on restlessly to search the darkness with beams of light and awareness
Review: Padgett Powell on “Wildcat,” a film about Flannery O'Connor
Can a movie convey the essence and the quintessence of what the author tried to do and who she was?
Review: Edward Mendelson on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
Virginia Woolf envisioned a diary that “coalesced” into something ”composed with the aloofness of a work of art.“ Have we done it justice?
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Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!
A rambling bookstore on a busy corner refreshed by Gulf breezes welcomes visitors from all over the South and beyond
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Ann Kjellberg

May 2025

Review: David Stromberg on Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade’s novel Sons and Daughters, which was published serially in the New York Yiddish press in the 1960s and 70s, appears in English in 2025
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Review: Anna DeForest on Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow”
On learning to suffer better
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Review: Barry Yourgrau on Nellie Campobello
A tenacious young woman takes hold of history and makes it her own
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Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (2) Mother Tongue
Can a writer’ find his work beyond the boundaries of one language?
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Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue
A writer who made his name writing in English tries to leave it behind
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