The Irish author on the follow-up to his bestselling novel, being blanked at the Oscars and the joys of giving up drinking
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John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.
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The book reviewed is: The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by John Swanson Jacobs. Edited by Jonathan D. S. Schroeder. Affiliate link to buy the paperback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/102959/9780226684307 
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Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these "amazing facts" are an homage.
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Greg Cwik reviews the new compilation of work from writer Harla
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Dark academia is a literary genre that has its origins in Donna Tartt’s seminal 1992 novel. The Secret History is set in the elite Hampden College in Vermont where a scholarship student attempts to…
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I now own two editions of Frankenstein whose cover illustrations prominently feature icebergs. The first one I acquired, a Broadview Edition, I bought for an undergraduate class. Its cover design i…
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To step into a campus novel, like stepping onto a college campus, is to enter a miniature world. It’s a place with a particular geography, made of dorm rooms and classrooms, student centers and din…
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Recently, the true crime genre has experienced a significant surge in popularity, captivating audiences with its nail-biting narratives of suspense and mystery. From bestselling books to binge-wort…
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Summer is here! Or, at least, pool season is officially starting (it’s been summer already for many of us working remotely). There are, of course, a gazillion good books coming out over the s…
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This follow-up, set 20 years on, kicks off with a marriage in crisis and skilfully conveys how blind we are to our own motivations...
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Affiliate link to buy the book from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/102959/9781476785110
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The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother...
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The author and film-maker explores dance, desire, mortality and transcendence on a wild autofictional journey...
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The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town...
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Affiliate link to buy the book from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/102959/9780593655931
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Affiliate link to buy the Library of America hardback edition of Portis' collected works:
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Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political commitments
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“She took off her clothes, opened the spigot all the way, and the cold water coursed over her body, making her shriek at the cold. That improvised bath made her laugh with pleasure. Her bathtub took in a marvellous view, beneath an already blazing sun. For a moment she became serious, still."
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Dark academia is a literary genre that has its origins in Donna Tartt’s seminal 1992 novel. The Secret History is set in the elite Hampden College in Vermont where a scholarship student attempts to…
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I am a writer driven by rape. My first foray into fiction featured a girl charged with murder for killing her rapist in self-defense. It was about silence and the many ways society revictimizes people…
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Armchair traveling is among my favorite pursuits. And little else surpasses the joy of diving into the most luxurious corners of the world via the pages of a delectable mystery. Give me all the boo…
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Sometimes authors mine their own hallowed grounds, looking to the past in search of today’s treasures. In that spirit, #1 New York Times bestselling wordsmith Harlan Coben presents the long-awaited…
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Books reviewed in the essay: The Diaries of Franz Kafka. Translated by Ross Benjamin. Penguin Classics, 704pp. Affiliate link to buy the above hardback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/102959/9780805243550 Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka by Karolina Watroba. Pegasus Books, 256pp. Affiliate link to buy the above hardback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/102959/9781639366712
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A compelling debut digs into the conflicting emotions at the heart of an aristocratic family in 2010s England...
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The novelist’s love triangle has its sights set on the elite insularity of the New York art world but its plot is programmatic...
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A brilliantly funny but deadly serious account of NHS psychiatry in crisis...
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Artist Profile: Emil Ferris discusses her new graphic novel, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two
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Emil Ferris burst onto the scene with “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.” It took everything she had.
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