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10 Best Cheese-Free Love Stories

  • FICTION

    SKIPPY DIES

    SEPT. 7, 2010

FICTION

SKIPPY DIES

by Paul Murray

Long and impossibly involved, but also beautifully written, with much truth and not a wasted word. A superb imagining of a... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    JUST KIDS

    JAN. 19, 2010

  • FICTION

    MARY AND O’NEIL

    FEB. 6, 2001

ROMANCE

MARY AND O’NEIL

by Justin Cronin

A quiet debut, its very understatement giving rise to its poignancy and strength. Full review >

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  • FICTION

    FINGERSMITH

    FEB. 4, 2002

FICTION

FINGERSMITH

by Sarah Waters

Nobody writing today surpasses the precocious Waters’s virtuosic handling of narrative complexity and thickly textured... Full review >

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  • FICTION

    GILEAD

    NOV. 1, 2004

FICTION

GILEAD

by Marilynne Robinson

Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and... Full review >

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  • FICTION

    NORWEGIAN WOOD

    SEPT. 1, 2000

FICTION

NORWEGIAN WOOD

by Haruki Murakami & translated by Jay Rubin

A contemporary equivalent of This Side of Paradise or Vile Bodies, and another solid building-block in one of contemporary... Full review >

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