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Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviewed Hanan al-Shaykh's “The Occasional Virgin” for The Millions.
Wayne Catan reviewed Scott Donaldson's “The Paris Husband: How it Really Was for Ernest and Hadley Hemingway” for the Idaho Statesman and Ottessa Moshfegh's “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for The Millions.
Victoria Chang reviewed Diane Seuss's book of poems, “Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl” for the Los Angeles Times.
Jane Ciabattari was in conversation about five books about Individuality and Identity, with chief judge of this year's Man Booker Prize, former head of PEN ,NYTimes magazine ethics columnist and author of The Lies that Bind Kwame Anthony Appiah in Lit Hub.
Katharine Coldiron reviewed Kristi Coulter's “Nothing Good Can Come from This” for the Chicago Review of Books, Tsitsi Dangarembga's “This Mournable Body” for the Masters Review, and Mara Altman's “Gross Anatomy” for BUST.
Paul W. Gleason reviewed Julie Schumacher's “The Shakespeare Requirement” for the Los Angeles Times.
Mary Ann Gwinn reviewed three biographies: “Ninety-nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” “The Pope Who Would Be King,” and “American Eden” for The Seattle Times.
Laurie Hertzel reviewed Shaun Bythell’s memoir, “A Diary of a Bookseller” for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She also wrote her weekly column off the study that reveals teen reading is dropping sharply.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Stephen Markley's “Ohio” for The Washington Post.
Alexander Kafka reviewed Susan Froderberg's novel “Mysterium” for The Washington Post.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Julia Boyd's “Travelers in the Third Reich” for the Boston Globe.
Ilana Masad reviewed R.O. Kwon's “The Incendiaries” for the the Los Angeles Times and Lisa Locascio's “Open Me“” for NPR.
N. Heller McAlpin reviewed Claire Tomalin’s “”A Life of My Own“” for the Washington Post and Jessie Greengrass’s “”Sight“” for NPR.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell reviewed D. Wystan Owen's “”Other People's Love Affairs“” for the New York Journal of Books.
Lauren Sarazen reviewed Laura van den Berg's “”The Third Hotel“” for the Los Angeles Review of Books and interviewed Ling Ma on “”Severance“” for Shondaland.
Paul Wilner reviews Seth Greenland’s “The Hazards of Good Fortune” for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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