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The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions

Rebekah Rutkoff

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As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square...

Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish

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In post-9/11 New York, Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant from northwest China. Forced to work...

The Lingard Trilogy

Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson and Andrew Purssell

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Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel: as well as exploring the culture of a part of...

Walking: A Novella

Thomas Bernhard

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Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of...

Zadie Smith recommended Their Eyes Were Watching God in Books (curated)

"This is a deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly. Hurston is a lyrical writer, and lyricism is not usually my cup of tea, but there are talents that go beyond genre and taste. Her greatest claim over me is that she never was ashamed of the novel as a form—she believed in the transformative power of storytelling, and she took risks with sentiment that few contemporary writers are prepared to make. This book is a part of my character now—that’s how many times I’ve read it. I don’t look to fiction to find heroes, but I have to admit that Janie has meant more to me than any other character. She’s singing my song, somehow. And you realize the breadth of Hurston’s talent when you find out how many other people feel exactly the same way."

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