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The Amazon Prime series has interesting worldbuilding but all the nuance of a sledgehammer.

Stephanie Johnson on a novel that dissects middle class obsessions

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Kenzaburō Ōe, the last of Japan’s great post second world war Japanese writers, died in early March. When he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1994, he said that as a novelist he wished to “enable both those who express themselves with words and their readers to recover from their…

The author’s compelling second novel sees an actor return to the birthplace of her ancestors, only to discover the pieces of herself that were missing

Premiering this week on Apple TV+, "The Big Door Prize" is "based on the book created by M.O. Walsh," as it is unusually credited here, and developed by David West Read, a writer and producer on "Schitt's Creek." Once again, we are in a whimsical small town, called Deerfield, full…

CHICAGO — Nelson Algren will not go away. Although he moved from Chicago in 1975 and died in 1981, he has managed to remain a frequent visitor, in the form of his famous novels, of course, but also in other ways that have given him a strange form of immortality.

FICTION: Three orphaned Vietnamese children are forced to make a new life in England.

FICTION: A collection of 10 satisfyingly spooky short stories.

FICTION: Three siblings make their way in the world after their mother's hospitalization.

NONFICTION: An enlightening look at American political scandals in the 1920s, which continue to shape how politics is played to this day.