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The truth is more horrific to face than most modern Americans care to imagine.
It's not easy being sexually inexperienced in Emma Rathbone's 'Losing It.'
HuffPost Culture's book of the week is Alejandro Zambra’s "Multiple Choice."
Joy Williams’ peculiar "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" blends philosophy with fantasy.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Jade Sharma's raw and powerful debut shows a young woman whose life is spiraling out of control.
Yasmine El Rashidi's debut novel illuminates the experience of coming of age amidst revolution -- and asks us to question what revolution even means.
A green card marriage between a botanist and a researcher makes for a rocky love story in this update of "The Taming of the Shrew."
"Eleven Hours" by Pamela Erens shows childbirth without distaste or romance, as a uniquely agonizing and dangerous event that so often leads, somehow, to joy.
Can a novel ever really live up to this much hype?
Noyes’ characters grope around in the dark for meaning in their rural hometowns.