'On Earth' Is Gorgeous All The Way Through
Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story, about a young Vietnamese American writer whose fractured family was torn by their experiences during the Vietnam War.
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In 'City Of Girls,' The Breezy, Bold Best Days Of Our Lives
Elizabeth Gilbert's new novel is set in the New York theater community of the 1940s — an effervescent golden age for the women who congregate at the offbeat Lily Playhouse.
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The Soviet Union’s Jewish Tolstoy — Censored in Life, Now Revived
James Ellroy Is Back, and His Los Angeles Is Darker Than Ever
Expat, Immigrant, Migrant, Refugee: Why ‘This Land Is Our Land’ No Matter the Label
An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'
Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong's words are mighty, teasing and overpowering in his autobiographical novel, written as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother.
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'Patsy' Discovers Her Dreams Don't Match Reality
Nicole Dennis-Benn packs a lot of uncomfortable truths into this novel about a Jamaican woman who emigrates to New York looking for an old love and a new life, leaving her mother and daughter behind.
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In 'Soulless,' A Journalist Takes On R. Kelly And The Business That Made Him A Star
For nearly two decades, Jim DeRogatis has been searching for justice on behalf of the women who have accused the R&B singer of sexual and physical abuse. His new book is an account of those years.
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Sometimes Fascinating, Sometimes Excruciating, 'Fall' Hums With Energy
Neal Stephenson's massive new novel mashes up characters readers will recognize from several previous reads, and sends them on a ride that's by turns maddening, overstuffed and revolutionary.
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The Screams of a Silent Movie Echo Through the Years
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