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André Alexis: “Consolation”

May 13, 2024

This week’s New Yorker fiction is André Alexis’s “Consolation.”

Anthony Horowitz: The Word Is Murder

May 9, 2024

After reading a couple of his other mystery novels, I’ve returned to Anthony Horowitz with his 2017 novel The Word Is Murder.

Dante Alighieri: The Inferno

May 7, 2024

After years of intending to do it, I finally reread Dante’s Inferno, this time in the translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander.

Simon Rich: “We’re Not So Different, You and I”

May 6, 2024

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Simon Rich’s “We’re Not So Different, You and I.”

Amit Chaudhuri: A Strange and Sublime Address

May 2, 2024

Knowing nothing of what to expect, I was delighted by Amit Chaudhuri’s debut novel from 1991, A Strange and Sublime Address.

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