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Trust me. Reading Richard Powers always makes you smarter.

Martyr! author Kaveh Akbar is Tommy Orange's favorite author – my favorite author's favorite author.

Beyond and including gender and race, don't we all feel that the world wants to label us?

Satire requires a lively imagination, a great sense of humor and a touch of sarcasm. All Gelder has it all.

It’s a sobering reality that genocide, war and other evil acts mix with noble deeds, heroic acts, life-saving inventions and global peace initiatives to generate the flow of human history. And to understand that without it, we don’t exist.

Self-definition is the stand-out theme of Brenda Barker’s Next Chapter. “I am an individual, not a ‘Boomer.’ And certainly not even all sixty-four-year-olds are the same."

My ten days of book-rationing felt a bit like a man faced with a desert crossing with a limited supply of water. If you’re sipping your last drop of water as your destination comes in sight, it’s all worth it.

DBC Pierre's writing style is like no other. His debut novel won the Man Booker Prize.

In his 2025 novel James, Percival Everett has established the high bar for 21st Century literature.

'It's time we name our kingdom!' he shouted over the wind. 'I say we call this place Happy Land. If this ain't the land of happy people, then where is it? Why not create our heaven right here on earth?'

When we write well, we touch each other.

Unlike the blurbs on the book cover, The Ministry of Time is deadly serious.

Gripping, insightful and deeply moving, you can't go wrong with a Louise Penny novel.

Her first novel, Addie E. Citchens crafted Dominion into a piece of literary fiction that rivals Toni Morrison.

This is a beautifully rendered novel and a soul-baring memoir all in one. Gish Jen's Bad Bad Girl was just released.

If you love books, you have to ask, 'what does it matter?'

You will long remember reading Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.