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A Début Novel Captures the Start of India’s Modi Era

New Yorker 11 Nov 2024
In “Quarterlife,” Devika Rege uses three very different protagonists to explore the country’s ideological ferment—setting them first at play, then at war ... .
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RTÉjr Book Club: It's the season for magic and mayhem

RTE 14 Oct 2024
The Reading Heroes are back once again with more bookish chat and début ... McDonnell’s stirring début grounds this tense, dramatic novel in her study of her characters and the ways in which they grow.
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The Mordant Intimacy of Cécile Desprairies’s “The Propagandist”

New Yorker 11 Oct 2024
In her début novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family’s real-life collaboration during the Second World War ... .
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The New Coming-of-Age Story

New Yorker 14 Mar 2024
Vinson Cunningham discusses his début novel, “Great Expectations,” a bildungsroman that captures a particular moment in American life—and that offers some clues about where the genre is heading ... .
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Downswell, Goddy Goddy, Carlene Davis for Denbigh gospel show

Jamaica Observer 26 Jul 2023
Others go to feast on the word of God ... Joseph Wellington) ... In 1996 there came a different aspect to the Denbigh expo with the gospel event's début. It returned last year after a two-year break due to the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic ... (Photo.
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Dorothy Tse’s “Owlish” Reviewed

New Yorker 05 Jun 2023
In “Owlish,” Dorothy Tse’s dreamlike début novel, a lonely professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina ... .
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Monica Heisey on seeing the funny side of divorce

France24 02 Jun 2023
As her début novel “Really good, actually” is translated into French, Monica discusses how social media has encouraged us to provide ...
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Behind the Scenes with Tom Hanks

New Yorker 19 May 2023
The actor kicks off the book tour for his début novel, “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,” onstage with David Remnick. Plus, Jill Lepore on gardening and history ... .
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A dark début spy novel that splices John le Carré and Mick Herron

The Daily Telegraph 19 Apr 2023
Le Carré’s and Herron’s DNA are clearly present in Dom Nicholls’s entertaining début novel, Mile One Point Six ... As one might expect from a debut novel, there are a few rough edges.
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Tom Hanks Talks with David Remnick at Symphony Space

New Yorker 15 Mar 2023
On May 9th, the Oscar-winning actor will join the editor of The New Yorker to discuss his film career and début novel ... .
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Book review: Pain and perseverance of orphanhood

Gulf News 05 Nov 2022
Glimmering début novel. The story will break your heart because Asghar writes a glimmering début novel that lucidly details the thorny path from childhood to adulthood. The story begins in Philly ... Ahmad Nazir is a UAE-based freelancer writer. .
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Mysteries: Crime writers craft clever whodunits set amid Virginia backdrops

Calhoun Times 31 Jul 2022
When Scott Turow’s début novel, “Presumed Innocent,” exploded on the crime-fiction scene in 1986, word of mouth ignited a frenzy of late-night reading that culminated in a shock that remains resonant ....
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