My Heart Laid Bare

Author	Margaret Atwood
ISBN	0385491050

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where...

Author	Maxine Hong Kingston
ISBN	0679721886

This was an intense book full of both women's power and violence against women set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution and the emigration of many Chinese people fleeing Mao to California. It is a mixture of autobiography and folklore and is beautifully written. Maxine Hong Kingston received...

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Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...

Author	Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN	0385720173

The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human...

Author	Norman Rush
ISBN	0679738169

I started subscribing to the Paris Review this year. I know, kind of silly, since almost all of their stuff is online. But I like the short stories, often, and I like feeling the thickness of the pages when I read it outside. One thing I've picked up from the issues I've read is that there seem to be a lot of writers...

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Алексей Сальников

Роман «Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него»– финалист премии «Большая книга» и «НОС».

«Пишет Сальников как, пожалуй, никто другой сегодня, а именно –...

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Guzel Yakhina

"Дети мои" — новый роман Гузель Яхиной, самой яркой дебютантки в истории российской литературы новейшего времени, лауреата премий "Большая книга" и "Ясная...