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A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.
"Samantha Allen reimagines a classic Shakespearean comedy for the age of reality television in this clever, funny novel."
Unlike the Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is a mischievous servant of the Fairy King, Samantha Allen's Puck is a producer on a reality show. Puck's boss is not Oberon but Ron, the executive producer of Homewreckers, a dating show...
Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.
"A young woman grapples with loss after her twin sister goes missing in a mysterious spiritual realm."
When the parents of twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia divorce, each takes primary custody of one daughter. Though both girls are growing up Black in the Midwest, their upbringings could not be more different. Their mother raises Olivia as a devout ...
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June 24, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, and Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. We ...
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"Lisa Lee explores the Korean American experience through the eyes of Jane, a floundering law student struggling to live up to her parents' expectations. When her brother commits a horrific act, family tensions resurface."
The Korean word "han" is generally defined as a feeling that encapsulates sorrow, resentment, grief, and loss of identity. Han is born from years of systemic suffering—occupation, war, displacement—and seeps into the daily lives of ...
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
May 24, 2026
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...
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"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."
On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...
Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
"An Intense, Pressure-Pounding Thriller/Mystery That Is Grounded with Compassion and Caring"
This psychological thriller by Chris Whitaker is by turns frightening and gentle, heartbreaking and heartwarming. It reached out and grabbed my heart (and sometimes my throat) and wouldn't let go. ...
"Karmela Padavic-Callaghan's debut book Entangled States explores identity, memory, and uncertainty through physics, blending quantum mechanics with a deeply personal memoir."
Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics is not your typical pop-sci book. Authored by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, a science journalist and writer who has worked with major magazines like New Scientist, it beautifully blends quantum ...
A propulsive debut novel following a has-been reality TV star and a disgraced producer who get one last shot at redemption on a show set on a remote island, only to discover that the plot twists are ...
Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
"A brother and sister make a living conducting Spiritualist hoaxes, but the tables are turned when they discover a real mystery at The Coterie."
As soon as I finished We Could Be Anyone I grabbed my phone to text three friends who love YA fantasy. "You will love this. Trust me," I wrote to each. One asked what it was about: "A brother and sister stage fake hauntings at fancy hotels and then ...
A young woman’s coming-of-age story set in the early American frontier, shaped by tragedy, nature, and resilience.
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