Most Anticipated: The Great 2023A Book Preview

Welcome to our biannual Great Book Preview! We’ve assembled the best books of 2023A (that is, the first half of 2023), including new work from Nicole Chung, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Claire Dederer, Brian Dillon, Samantha Irby, Heidi Julavits, Catherine Lacy, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rebecca Makkai, Fernanda Melchor, Lorrie Moore, Jenny Odell, Curtis Sittenfeld, Clint Smith, Zadie Smith, Brandon Taylor, Colm Tóibín, and many, many more. At … The post Most Anticipated: The Great 2023A Book Preview appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at 'The Millions'

[ The Millions | 2023-01-09 10:30:00 UTC ]

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Jenny Odell on Timing Our Lives in Rhythm With the Earth

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Book Review: ‘Affinities,’ by Brian Dillon

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Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

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Here is the Granta 2023 Best of British Novelists list.

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Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

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