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International LiteratureThe Colophon

Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.

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CensorshipInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

Sounding the alarm: What two classic 20th century science fiction novels have to say about our world in 2023

January 3, 2023January 5, 2023

Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy

December 13, 2022December 16, 2022

Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

Alan Moore stretches the generic definition of a story with a single volume that comprises eight short(er) pieces and one full-on novel

December 7, 2022December 14, 2022

Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.

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CanLitInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.

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International LiteratureThe ColophonWriters and Writing

In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.

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International LiteraturePublishingThe Colophon

Carmen Callil – publisher, author, and feminist firebrand – dies at age 84

October 18, 2022October 20, 2022

"All of us in publishing, and all of us who love books, owe a debt to her publishing genius," says Bea Hemming of Jonathan Cape.

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International LiteratureThe Horror Show

Feral men and murderous TERFs: the post-apocalyptic world of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.

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