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by Charles Baxter

The uncanny power of Baxter’s work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones. Full review >

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by Marilyn Chin

A fresh, chaotic and sexy updating of the cross-cultural experience. Full review >

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by Michael Collier

Whether writing about the natural creatures of the world or about myth and personal history, Collier offers delight for both... Full review >

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by Anthony Doerr

Doerr (Four Seasons in Rome, 2007, etc.) moves the reader gracefully from place to place (the stories span four continents),... Full review >

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by Tony Hoagland

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by Mary-Beth Hughes

Only the title story, an anti-elegy for a World Trade Center victim, demonstrates explicitly how apt Hughes’s title is, for... Full review >

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by Hari Kunzru

A considerably more ambitious and searching work than its predecessors. Full review >

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by Timothy Liu

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by Joe Meno

Definitely out of the ordinary, and not the ideal book to digest in one sitting, but a mature step forward for this... Full review >

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by Paul Muldoon

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by Sigrid Nunez

Class, not cure, is Nunez’s preoccupation, and she handles it with fine-tuned irony and no small measure of profundity. Full review >

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by Patty Seyburn

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by Cheryl Strayed

A hauntingly beautiful story written with tenderness and endowed with true insights into the frailty of relationships. Full review >

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by Deb Olin Unferth

A dryly humorous memoir of love, travel and wide-eyed idealism. Full review >

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