Playing It Safe
Alice McDermott’s new novel, about American civilians in Vietnam during the war, asks whether the intricacy of moral complications precludes heroism.
Absolution
by Alice McDermott
February 8, 2024 issue
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Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, including, most recently, Secrets of Happiness. Her novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. (February 2024)
Playing It Safe
Alice McDermott’s new novel, about American civilians in Vietnam during the war, asks whether the intricacy of moral complications precludes heroism.
Absolution
by Alice McDermott
February 8, 2024 issue
Friends: A Love Story
Jean Chen Ho’s main characters like each other plenty, with all the trouble that comes with that.
Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho
February 9, 2023 issue
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There is a good deal to like about the heartlessness that tinges Clare Sestanovich’s fiction.
Objects of Desire
by Clare Sestanovich
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