From Sally Rooney’s 'Normal People' to Amy Hempel’s first short-story collection in more than a decade, spring is stacked with great reads
Arriving over a decade after The End , Salvatore Scibona’s long-awaited second novel begins with an abandoned boy in an airport.
How did he get there? In answering that question, Scibona weaves a powerful multigenerational story about the disturbing journey of a family caught in the crosshairs of history. Amy Hempel’s first collection in more than a decade bolsters her status as a towering figure in American...
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