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It has, indeed, been a very long tim...
Barbara Kingsolver in a Quieter Key
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To say it’s no Demon Copperhead hardly seems fair.
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Every author hopes their work will endure. But Patricia McCormick’s novel Sold has attained a painful kind of currency. In 2025, almost 20 years after it was published, Sold was the most challenged book in the United States...
The Reluctant Rebel
The Tuesday Review
(Ecco)
Dodge City might sound like a throwback to Patrick deWitt’s celebrated western, The Sisters Brothers, but that’s only the first feint in his wry new novel. Like that gunslinging story about fraternal assassins, D...
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