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National Book Award: Longlists for Poetry and Nonfiction

September 13, 2018

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Poetry and Nonfiction awards.

National Book Award: Longlists for Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature

September 12, 2018

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Translated Fiction and Young People’s Literature awards.

Daisy Johnson: Everything Under

September 12, 2018

Lee reviews Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under, a retelling of the Oedipus myth in contemporary England. The book is on this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist.

Tessa Hadley: “Cecilia Awakened”

September 11, 2018

This week’s New Yorker story is Tessa Hadley’s “Cecilia Awakened.”

Jean Améry: Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man

September 7, 2018

Trevor reviews Jean Améry’s 1978 novel-essay, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man, translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West.

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