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With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
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With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
Seven men rehearse a gay prison play in 1988 Kingston. One night a crowd arrives, and two of the cast are never seen again. Marlon James has written the longest, hardest and most f...
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
Does it matter? It’s an excellent book and a provocation to Jamaican readers most of all.
The legacy of colonialism casts a long shadow over the Virgin Islands. Although the enslavement of native people is consigned to the historical past, the current status of the isla...
Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.
The “disappearers” of the title are Orrin Turner and Matt Chin, who dominate this decades-spanning saga without being seen or heard through most of it. They are two of the gay men—...
Midlife meditations from Barbara Kingsolver; musical portraits by Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li; plus memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench – all among the coming season’s highlig...
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A furniture dealer four years out of the crooked life needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter, and the only man who can get them is a corrupt detective with a subpoena and nothing...
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A new Marlon James tome, a tragic tale from Emma Cline, and a hip-hop history.
“I don’t know where I stand as a writer, but I am the greatest procrastinator of my generation.”
The thirteen novels on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist were revealed July 28. The longlist was chosen from 163 titles written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland betw...
I have always understood home as something provisional, something that might exist more fully in memory than in the places I moved through. I was ten when I left St. Vincent and th...
A flawed book tries to put race and politics back into a pan-American tragedy.
Poet Aptowicz turns to the history of her native Pennsylvania with the story of William Parker, enslaved in neighboring Maryland. After having been forced to fight other enslaved m...
Invisible Islands In the historical writings that we have, the women and men sit and wait in their canoes, showing no sign of aggression. They watch, hands at rest, as the men on t...
The sea keeps washing up things that learn to talk. Harrison's first novel in six years is the strangest and most beautiful book on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist, and the least in...
The 2026 list includes new works from household names Douglas Stuart, Marlon James and Elizabeth Strout as well as a few debut authors.
Dina Soto first lost her older brother, Joel, to tragic circumstances—and soon after, her high school soccer coach father confessed to the murders of two of his students. Papi was...
During the Covid-19 lockdown, a Massachusetts-based writer/professor, whose nerves are frayed from spending too much time cooped up with his family, goes for a drive and ends up on...
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