Maureen Corrigan

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Louise Erdrich's disquieting new novel will keep you on your toes

Monday, November 08, 2021

Set in a haunted Minneapolis bookshop over the course of one very momentous year, The Sentence is an ambitious novel, featuring a sinister ghost, a country in tumult and Erdrich's own shifting style.

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'My Monticello' grapples with the past, present and future of American racism

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

The title novella of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's debut is set in the near future in Charlottesville, Va., where descendants of Sally Hemings' take shelter from a racist mob in Thomas Jefferson's manor.

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In this new political thriller, a familiar pantsuited figure saves democracy

Monday, October 25, 2021

Co-written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, State of Terror centers on a female secretary of state as she races against time to out-maneuver international terrorists and homegrown traitors.

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With 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' Anthony Doerr Dazzles And Disturbs

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The Light We Cannot See follows five young people, each living in dangerous times across the span of eight centuries.

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Make This 'Fortnight in September' Your Pandemic Escape

Monday, September 20, 2021

R.C. Sherriff's recently reissued 1931 novel, which follows a British family on their two-week holiday, is a reflection on how time changes shape in periods like a vacation — or even a pandemic.

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'Beautiful World' Is Sally Rooney's Toughest, Most Sweeping Novel To Date

Thursday, September 09, 2021

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a cerebral novel that traces the relationships between four characters, and shifts between themes of sex, friendship and life's dark uncertainty.

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Think You Know Where The Stories In 'Skinship' Are Going? Think Again

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The eight short stories in Yoon Choi's extraordinary collection splinter out in unexpected ways, shifting focus from a single life to decades of complex family history.

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Laura Lippman's 'Dream Girl' Is The Latest Thriller To Center On Stolen Stories

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Many of this year's mystery and suspense novels explore literary appropriation — characters in positions of privilege laying their sticky mitts on stories that don't belong to them.

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The Nuns In 'Agatha Of Little Neon' Don't Fly Or Sing, But They Will Stay With You

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

You don't have to be Catholic to connect with Claire Luchette's vivid story of a lonely young woman yearning for community — and also for everything she gave up to be part of that community.

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'Afterparties' Is A Bittersweet Triumph For A Fresh Voice Silenced Too Soon

Monday, August 02, 2021

Anthony Veasna So's posthumously published short story collection offers a smart, compassionate take on the push-pull of growing up first-generation Cambodian American.

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One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Messy and floundering in late midlife, Dana Spiotta's heroine is roiling — along with the rest of the country — amid the 2016 election and the rise of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.

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'Women Of Brewster Place' Reissue Brims With Inventiveness — And Relevance

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Now newly reissued, Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel-in-stories painted a group portrait of seven Black women living on a dingy street in an unnamed city, and the systematic racism they faced.

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'Light Perpetual' Imagines Adulthood For 5 Fictional Kids Killed In WWII Attack

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

In 1944 an attack on a London Woolworths killed 168 people. In his new novel, Francis Spufford explores what "might have been" for five young casualties of war.

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'Republic Of Detours' Revisits A Group Of Quirky, Depression-Era Guides To The States

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Scott Borchert's cultural history of the New Deal initiative known as the Federal Writers' Program teems with colorful characters, scenic byways and telling anecdotes.

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Struggling Writers Steal Someone Else's Work In 2 New Suspense Novels

Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Chris Power's brooding literary novel A Lonely Man and Jean Hanff Korelitz's nightmare of a thriller The Plot explore the dangerous consequences of sticky fingers in the literary world.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Notes On Grief' Is A Raw Elegy For Her Father

Monday, May 17, 2021

Adichie writes she "came undone" when she learned of her dad's death. Her new book is a charged account of his passing — and also a narrative of mourning in the time of pandemic.

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2 Novels Explore The Big Romantic Bargains We Strike In The Name Of Love

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny and Secrets of Happiness, by Joan Silber, ruminate on love and family — particularly the family that's thrust upon you when you fall in love.

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Why Did The Chicken Befriend The Widow? Find Out In This Plucky Italian Novella

Thursday, April 22, 2021

An older woman living on a remote farm turns to an emotional-support hen for company. Sacha Naspini's newly translated novella is a slim volume, packed with unexpected secrets and epiphanies.

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'The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev' Is A Faux Music History That Rocks

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Dawnie Walton's sly narrative is a story about music, race and family secrets that spans five decades, centering on an interracial rock duo who strike it big in the early '70s.

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A Daughter Struggles To Escape Her Mother's Shadow In 'Libertie'

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

What if a child doesn't share a parent's ambition? Kaitlyn Greenidge's novel is inspired by the life of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, the third Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.

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