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Have you ever stared at a book’s synopsis and thought, ‘I’ll be surprised if I like this?’ When I came across the term ‘evil...

Why Do We Love the Wild Girl? Thoughts on "Marlena" Thank God for Julie Buntin. That's what I have been saying to myself after finishing...

Personal essays and memoirs really pull me in and I’ve found over the last few years I’ve drifted away from reading fiction. Looking at...

The books on this list earned their place based almost solely on the number of times I’m willing to re-read them. I can like or even love...

The 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist was just announced, with some of our favorites gracing the list. But with so many noteworthy...

On the resilience of women, the transformative power of education, and her novel “A Woman Is No Man” This is not the story that says:...

A writer I like made a joke a few years ago on Twitter. She linked to a current news story and her comment was simply: #banallmen. It was...

Literary awards can seem so arbitrary when you think of the sheer amount of books and the relatively small amount of ‘judges’ who read...

In The Overstory a character says: The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a...

Congratulations are in order for Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, who will receive the Trustee Award at...

Wow! 2018 was a great year for books. It was the first year since I was a toddler that I wasn’t in school, so I had more time to read...

The classic books that are my favorite are the ones that really showcase how innovative language and the art of the story have always...

These are the books that hold a special place on my bookshelf. They have inspired me as a writer and they have entertained me as a...

There’s a connection with books that’s a bit different than other mediums like film or music; you must spend the hours consuming pages in...

I barely knew how to approach this review. So here's how Anna Burns might write about me reading her book. If you haven't read Milkman,...