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Recent Fiction

There's something for every reader in these novels from the past year, including debut writers and old favorites.

Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen (Excerpt)

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor,...

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  • 02 / 24 / 2011

"Orientation" A Short Story by Daniel Orozco

From the collection ORIENTATION. “A wonderful collection of stories. ‘Somoza’s Dream’ alone is worth the price of the ticket. But that’s not fair, because the same could be said of ‘...

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  • 05 / 11 / 2011

"Shakers" A Short Story by Daniel Orozco

From the collection ORIENTATION. Selected by David Foster Wallace for BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2007. “A wonderful collection of stories. ‘Somoza’s Dream’ alone is worth the price of the ...

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Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Excerpt)

“Extravagantly entertaining . . . One of the great pleasures of this novel is how confidently [Paul Murray] addresses such disparate topics as quantum physics, video games, early-20th-cen...

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  • 03 / 29 / 2011

The Lover's Dictionary:A Novel by David Levithan (Excerpt)

A sweet and touching modern love story, told through dictionary entries If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands ...

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  • 02 / 24 / 2011

Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (Excerpt)

“For busy, harried or distractible readers who have the time and energy only to skim the opening paragraph of a review, I’ll say this as quickly and clearly as possible: The Death of the ...

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  • 03 / 29 / 2011

Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin (Excerpt)

“Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia’s greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best. Day of the Oprichnik is a haunting and terrifying vision of modern Russia projected two decades i...

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  • 03 / 29 / 2011

The Second Son: A Novel by Jonathan Rabb (Excerpt)

An Intriguing Historical Thriller Set in the Barcelona of the Spanish Civil War On the eve of Hitler’s Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner, a half Jew, has been forced out of the ...

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  • 02 / 24 / 2011

Ghost Light: A Novel by Joseph O'Connor (Excerpt)

1907 Edwardian Dublin, a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with the talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that Synge, the author ...

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  • 02 / 24 / 2011

By Nightfall: A Novel by Michael Cunningham (Excerpt)

Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age dau...

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THE HYPNOTIST by Lars Kepler (Excerpt)

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Hypnotist is—yes—impossible to put down. The Hypnotist is—yes—ingeniously put together, like a Swiss watch. The Hypnotist is—Yes!—fabulously entertainin...

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  • 06 / 08 / 2011