The Brooklyn Rail

Books

• Karl Ove Knausgaard's Summer

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  By Robert Blaisdell

• Laura Esther Wolfson's For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors

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  By Lily Majteles

• Tommy Orange's There There

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  By Yvonne C. Garrett

• William T. Vollmann’s Carbon Ideologies

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  By Jacob Singer

• Porochista Khakpour's Sick

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  By Deena ElGenaidi

• Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body

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  By John Domini

• Donna Masini’s 4:30 Movie

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  By Tony Leuzzi

• NEW WORLD POSTCOLONIAL: JAMES W. FUERST with Juan E. De Castro

• Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes

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  By Elizabeth Block

• BLAIR HURLEY with Olivia Kate Cerrone

• STEVE ALMOND with Curt Smith

• TIMOTHY LIU with Tony Leuzzi

• The Delicious Unease of A Lesser Day

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  By Aimee Parkinson

• DALE PECK with Christine Sang

• Assimilation as Disappearing Act: José Olivarez's Citizen Illegal

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  By Chris Campanioni

• Alistair McCartney's The Disintegrations

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  By Tim Horvath

• Susan Shapiro’s The Byline Bible

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  By Matt Grant

• Welcome to Lagos

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  By Yvonne C. Garrett