Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 352 pages.
Billed as a postapocalyptic dystopian noir, Mevlido’s Dreams manifests flashes of multiple genres without ever fully comm…
FICTION
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- New York. Random House. 2024. 286 pages. Téa Obreht’s great new novel is, in fact, a book about war refugees. However, told in first person and set up in the near future in a city th…
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- London. Dar Arab. 2024. 484 pages. “Mecca. The Sacred Mosque . . . Before that moment, everything had been fine.” Thus opens the novel Lost in Mecca, a title paradoxical in it…
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- New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 176 pages. Liminality is a term used in anthropology to describe the quandary mode being experienced by humans during the middle stage of a rite of pass…
- Fort Smith, Arkansas. Belle Point Press. 2024. 160 pages. It’s been thirty-two years, five novels, and an essay collection since Rilla Askew published Strange Business, her debut sho…
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- New York. Scribner. 2024. 304 pages. Colm Tóibín—twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Folio Prize…
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