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April 2025

Dream State, by Eric Puchner: A New Take on the Multi-Generational Family Saga
Normally, you hear "multi-generational family saga" and your thoughts go to a novel starting around World War II and finishing up in present day.
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Greg Zimmerman
Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino: What Even Is a Human?
A few weeks ago, I got to hear Marie-Helene Bertino read from the short story that became the basis for her novel,Beautyland. The passages she read were…
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Shelf Lives, Vol 2: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
(To read an introduction to Shelf Lives, and the first "issue" about Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's Americanah, click here.)
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Ron Currie Is Back, Let's Celebrate! (Or, a Peek Inside the Reviewer's Mind)
Ron Currie's 2009 novel Everything Matters! blew me away -- it's a story about a kid who knows the exact moment he's going to die.
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March 2025

February 2025

My Friends, by Hisham Matar: On the Loneliness of Exile
Hisham Matar's 2024 National Book Award-finalist novelMy Friendsis about making your way in the world when you can't go home again.
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Greg Zimmerman
Shelf Lives, Vol. 1: Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Today I'm excited to introduce a new feature at the New Dork Review of Books: Shelf Lives.
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Greg Zimmerman
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Are You Ready to Rock?! Here Are 6 Amazing Music Novels
There is no subgenre of novel I love more than books about music.
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Greg Zimmerman
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A Couple of Bright Bookish Things in Otherwise Dark Times
In January 2017 when the Orange Thing began his first term of catastrophic assault on human decency, good governance, and basic common sense, I had the…
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