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Fiction: Novels of Note

When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose
Reviewing Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ and Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Maud Martha’
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Ideas from Outside the Mind
Reviewing Two John Wyndham Sci-Fi Classics, ‘The Chrysalids’ and ‘Chocky’
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Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Reviewing ‘All the Pretty Horses,’ ‘The Crossing,’ and ‘Cities of the Plain’
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When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains
Reviewing Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel, ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’
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Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime
Reviewing ‘Heart Sutra’ and ‘The Day the Sun Died’ by Chinese Novelist Yan Lianke
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Purple Rage? A Book to Offend Almost Everyone
Both Beloved and Banned: Reviewing Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’
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Myth Take: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Till We Have Faces’
Sometimes the Questions We Pose Present the Answers We Seek
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What Would You Trade for Power and Wealth?
Reviewing Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’ and César Aira’s ‘The Famous Magician’
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What’s So Great about ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Classic Novel of Anxiety and Hope
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The Weird and Wild Mind of Charles Williams
A Tour of His Seven Novels, Called ‘Supernatural Thrillers’ by T.S. Eliot
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The Little Girl Who Helped Beat the Nazis
Childhood Remembered: Reviewing Betty Smith’s ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
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Shouldering the Burden of Belief
Reviewing Shusaku Endo’s Historical Novels ‘Silence’ and ‘The Samurai’
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