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The book is also a melancholy portrayal of male solitude and community.
Little Eyes, a series of vignettes about “kentukis” (part Furby, part hacked webcam), sits somewhere between a novel and a series of linked short stories.
Spring, though full of Smith’s trademark puns, is a more sinister novel.
Kingsolver manages to make her characters simultaneously believable individuals, and embodiments of a generation.
The crime was set up to look like a burglary gone wrong, but the police realised that the murderer had to be one of the household.
With the full complement of Homesian injuries, accidents and illnesses, these stories are at once melancholy and absurd.
If social politics dominates these stories, national politics nibbles at the edges of them.
Elif Batuman's novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard.
Since Barack Obama declared that America has an "empathy deficit", empathy has become a political buzzword. But is it always a force for good?
April Ayers Lawson’s debut collection is both forensic and mysterious.
