An interview with Marisa Crane on motion, the early 2000s, and their new novel, “A Sharp Endless Need.”
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Mesha Maren is the author of the novel Sugar Run (Algonquin Books). Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Triquarterly, Crazyhorse and elsewhere. She serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia and is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Duke University.
In ‘Hello Down There,’ Addiction Is a Metaphor That Questions Language and Daily Life
An interview with author Michael Parker on the reprint of his first novel, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize in 1993.
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“The War for Gloria” Explores the Degeneration of Bodies, Minds, and Ultimately, Lives
A review of Atticus Lish’s new novel, “The War for Gloria.”
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Jessie van Eerden on “Call It Horses,” Appalachia and Characters’ Inner Lives
An interview with Jessie van Eerden on her recent novel, “Call It Horses.”
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“Empty Houses” Asks When a Home Becomes a Home
Brenda Navarro’s book “Empty Houses,” translated by Sophie Hughes, is at once a dialectic on motherhood and a modern-day fairytale.
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“Slash and Burn”: The Act of Acute Listening
“Slash and Burn,” Claudia Hernández’s newest novel, tells a story of war and women.
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“A Silent Fury” Is an Act of Witness
Yuri Herrera’s recent book, “A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire,” contains a murder mystery, a historical reconstruction, an ekphrasis, an homage, and above all an act of witness.
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“Hurricane Season” Is Like “2666” Meets Hieronymus Bosch
Mesha Maren on Fernanda Melchor’s slim, brutal novel set in small-town Mexico.
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