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Upstream by Mary Oliver
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go …
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"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go …
Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR …
A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from …
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 is a 2009 history book by English historian …
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish …
John Williams: Butcher's Crossing (2007, New York Review Books)
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and …
This trilogy follows a broad cast of characters through the centuries as earth enters a crisis following the Chinese cultural …
A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing …