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Samanta Schweblin has terrified readers across the globe precisely because she tells familiar stories we should all dread. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Peter Richardson / TruthdigNov 2, 2018
Despite an embargo on his archive, a new biography examines how events between the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's resignation pushed the writer toward his most trenchant work. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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Ron CharlesDec 15, 2017
Jonathan Swift, we need you now—when one constantly sees true stories prefaced with "Not from The Onion!"—more than ever. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Emma Niles / TruthdigNov 17, 2017
Almost all the winners of the prestigious literary prize, which honors the year's best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature, are women. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Truthdig's Robert Scheer discuss U.S. foreign policy and ignorance of Vietnamese culture. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )
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In Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories, characters are filled with battle scars whose origins remain invisible. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Rayyan Al-Shawaf / TruthdigFeb 27, 2017
In his new novel, Paul Auster manages to conjoin gimmickry and genius, as readers find their perspective radically altered by a detail unveiled at the end. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Ron CharlesNov 20, 2015
John Irving, now 73, asks in his 14th novel how a child becomes an adult storyteller, amid outrageous calamities somewhere between coincidence and fate. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Ron CharlesAug 28, 2015
The stories in Adam Johnson’s new collection are all set in an uncanny world you recognize but don't. From ravaged American cities to abandoned torture chambers, each one is a miniature demonstration of why Johnson won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Maureen CorriganJul 3, 2015
A new novel takes its place in the line of powerful works about young men and war, and recognizes the courage of those in war's aftermath, who are left to pick up the pieces. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Nicholas Rombes, Two Dollar RadioFeb 25, 2015
"I, a lover of cinema, destroyed the films -- in nothing more than a shitty little garbage can, which is funny considering the can had no idea that its insides were being burned and scalded by the likes of Lynch and Antonioni and Deren and Jodorowsky.""I, a lover of cinema, destroyed the films—in nothing more than a shitty little garbage can, which is funny considering the can had no idea that its insides were being burned and scalded by the likes of Lynch and Antonioni and Deren and Jodorowsky." Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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