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In Sue Miller’s latest novel, "Monogamy," Annie is a happy wife. Her husband, Graham, is a man with a magnetic personality and big appetites. One day, he seems preoccupied and distant, but her anxiety dissolves when he presents her with flowers.
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Likes is the latest short story collection by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, featuring nine stories.In these, she imagines Black and brown characters who don’t…
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Joshua Bennett’s latest poetry collection is Owed. That’s O-W-E-D. The book is a series of odes — lyric poetry in the form of an address to a particular…
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Fifteen stories make up the debut collection by Jenny Bhatt, and each story is as different from the next as it can be, featuring diverse settings,…
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MONDAY on "The Source" — Marlena Shaw's 1969 hit "California Soul" has been sampled time and time again, but Emily Lordi thinks the singer doesn't get…
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The first thing you notice when you pick up this slim volume is the image on the cover featuring a young girl facing one way, standing on a shore by the…
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Some students at the University of Texas-San Antonio have a new English literature class this fall that should resonate in their modern lives, although…
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In Callan Wink’s novel, August, we follow the title character, August, from ages 12 to 19. His parents divorce. He observes the many ways their union was…
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The Heart and Other Monsters is a grief memoir, one that also intersects with a murder mystery. The first thing we learn when we read the first page of…
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This week’s Pop-Up Book! is Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland: A History by Mike Tapia. The book offers a 100-year history of the subcultures of the…