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The winner of this year’s PEN/Hemingway Award, Chemistry is a quietly funny and meticulously crafted work of fiction. Three years into her post-grad studies in chemistry and nearly as long into a relationship, our unnamed narrator is wavering. She doesn’t know how to answer her boyfriend’s proposal, her research is stagnating, and the demands of her Chinese parents are …
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Compelling fiction about the power of books
It’s 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer’s block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the …
The best new crime reads of the month
Honestly, how I’m expected to go past a title with a pun like this is beyond me. In the third book starring small-town fish-and-chip-shop-owner-and-also-detective-but-not-officially Cass Tuplin (the first one: Murder with the Lot), Cass is accosted one day by fellow resident and ex-let’s-not-mention-it Vern, who’s got a new girlfriend…
Book recommendations for people who find Mother’s Day hard
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Dear Reader, May 2018
I sat down one Saturday to take a casual look at my advance copy of Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic, but found myself pinned to the couch for several hours by the force of Tumarkin’s writing; such is the power of this book. It is another major achievement for the author, who writes about history, trauma, the legacies of the past, and the experience of living in the present; it is a beautiful, challeng…
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