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May 1, 2021‘Second Place’ by Rachel Cusk
After her landmark ‘Outline’ trilogy, the author’s latest novel is inspired by a memoir about D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico
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April 1, 2021‘On the Line’ by Joseph Ponthus
Poetry is found in the processing plants of Brittany
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October 1, 2020‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante
The Neapolitan author returns to characters driven by compulsions and tensions of class
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April 1, 2020‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
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November 1, 2019‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
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September 1, 2019‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
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October 1, 2018‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion
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August 1, 2018To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
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July 1, 2018‘Kudos’ by Rachel Cusk
A masterful trilogy concludes
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November 1, 2017‘The Sparsholt Affair’ by Alan Hollinghurst
Picador; $32.99
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October 1, 2017‘The Burning Girl’ by Claire Messud
Fleet; $27.99
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September 1, 2017‘Forest Dark’ by Nicole Krauss
Bloomsbury; $24.99
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July 16, 2017Surveying the scene
Art Gallery of NSW celebrates the work of iconic Indigenous photographer Mervyn Bishop
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July 1, 2017‘Between Them’ by Richard Ford
Bloomsbury; $18.99
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June 1, 2017‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami
Harvill Secker; $35