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Beth Garrabrandt
Joyce Carol Oates is the author, most recently, of Breathe, a novel, and Night, Neon: Tales of Suspense and Mystery. She is Visiting Distinguished Professor in the English Department at Rutgers in the spring of 2022 and the 2020 recipient of the Cino del Duca World Prize. (February 2022)
Left Behind in Lisbon
Maria Judite de Carvalho’s depiction of the lives of women in mid-twentieth-century Portugal is executed as precisely and without sentiment as an autopsy.
Empty Wardrobes
by Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, with an introduction by Kate Zambreno
February 10, 2022 issue
Chronicle of a Death Ignored
Becky Cooper’s We Keep the Dead Close is as much a study of corrosive institutional patriarchy as it is an investigation into an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard.
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by Becky Cooper
February 11, 2021 issue
The Poet of Freakiness
Stories, Plays and Other Writings
by Carson McCullers, edited by Carlos L. Dews
Complete Novels
by Carson McCullers, edited by Carlos L. Dews
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
by Virginia Spencer Carr, with a foreword by Tennessee Williams
September 28, 2017 issue
Postcards from the Edge
Always Happy Hour
by Mary Miller
The Last Days of California
by Mary Miller
Big World
by Mary Miller
April 20, 2017 issue
Shirley Jackson in Love & Death
Her fiction exerts a mordant, hypnotic spell
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by Ruth Franklin
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: A Graphic Adaptation
by Miles Hyman
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
by Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt, with a foreword by Ruth Franklin
October 27, 2016 issue
Unflinching About Women
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin, edited and with an introduction by Stephen Emerson, and with a foreword by Lydia Davis
March 10, 2016 issue
Joan Didion: Risk & Triumph
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
by Tracy Daugherty
October 8, 2015 issue
The Remains of the Britons
Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
April 2, 2015 issue
Shocks of Recognition
‘Bark: Stories’ by Lorrie Moore
Bark: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
April 3, 2014 issue
Mike
Mike Tyson’s ‘Undisputed Truth’
Undisputed Truth
by Mike Tyson with Larry Sloman
December 19, 2013 issue
Animal De-Liberation
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
September 26, 2013 issue
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