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Girl, 1983

On a winter's night in 1983, a 16-year-old girl is lost on the streets of Paris. She's been in the city for less than 24 hours and can't remember the name of her hotel; she's alone and...
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Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman

In Girl, 1983, Linn Ullmann uses the tools of fiction to dissect a teenaged narrator's traumatic encounter with an older man. That narrator's biography has numerous parallels to Ullmann's own, ...
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The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Bewitching follows the stories of three women living decades apart: one in 1904, one in 1934, and one in 1998. In this work by the author of Mexican Gothic, the women are ...
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Weird Tales Magazine's Literary Legacy

In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Bewitching, Minerva refers often to stories published in a literary magazine called Weird Tales. The magazine was launched in 1923 'to showcase writers trying to publish ...
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Fox

An Acura is found half-submerged in the wetlands of southern New Jersey; inside is the animal-eaten corpse of Francis Fox, an English teacher at Langhorne Academy, an elite boarding school in the ...
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Edgar Allan Poe's Marriage to Virginia Clemm

Edgar Allan Poe looms over Fox—quite literally, in fact. Mr. Fox has a large bronze bust of Poe with a raven on his shoulder, a prize for winning a poetry contest, displayed in his office. But...
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Room on the Sea

"The Gentleman from Peru," the first of the three novellas that make up André Aciman's new collection, Room on the Sea, follows Margot, an American vacationing on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and Ra&#...
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The Love Letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a 17th Century Nun

In the final novella of Room on the Sea, Aciman has Mariana, a student and scholar, relive her ill-fated love affair with Itamar, a womanizing painter also staying at the Italian Academy, by ...
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Archive of Unknown Universes

Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr. examines two families across two timelines: one in 2018 starting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the other covering 1978–1980 in El Salvador. The...
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The Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)

Ruben Reyes Jr.'s Archive of Unknown Universes explores the impact of the Salvadoran Civil War by contrasting one alternative timeline that shows a decisive victory by the government with another ...
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Angel Down

Daniel Kraus's novel Angel Down takes place late in World War I, just weeks away from the November 11, 1918 Armistice. Private Cyril Bagger, self-professed gambler, con man, and card cheat, has ...
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The Angels of Mons

Daniel Kraus's novel Angel Down is set on a WWI battlefield in France. After a particularly brutal shelling, Private Cyril Bagger is sent along with a small group of others to "take care of&...
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July 30, 2025

The BookBrowse Review

July 30, 2025

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Fox by Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, and The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. We also bring you new First Impressions selections, author interviews, and more.

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